Baby Of The Month - Previous Winners

January 2008

At Homemade Baby Food Recipes, we love to hear about how your babies are progressing - and we love receiving photographs of them, too!

In our Baby of the Month Competition, we invite you to send in a special photograph of your little one - and we publish our favourites on the site!

You can see the current winners - and the entry form for submitting your photographs - on our Baby of the Month page - and here are our winners from January's competition!

We start the New Year off with not one, but TWO fantastic smiles - welcome to our
"Babies Of The Month"
D'Angelo and Dante, 6 months, from New Zealand

D'Angelo and Dante's Mum, Christina, told us...

Both my boys enjoy eating, and they know instantly when that blue bowl is my hand that it's food time!

They mainly eat homemade fruit puree because they spit back veggies, so I sometimes hide the veggies in the mix! Now that they're 6 months old, their starting to allow a wider range of foods such as custard, toasts and teething rusks - although there's no signs of teething at all.

Every morning they have baby rice and a mixture of pureed fruits for breakfast, and yogurt or plain fruit puree for dinner. And now I'm looking for recipe ideas for lunch on your site!

(In the photo, Dante's upside down.)

Christina, you must be so proud of your boys! Thank you so much for sending in this gorgeous photograph.

Thank you, everyone, for all the other fantastic entries we received this month!

Here are some more of your babies' wonderful pictures, along with a few words from Mum...

Alia, 7 months

Alia has taken to eating solid foods like a fish to water!

I love making her her "fare" and we have a great time at breakfast, lunch and dinner.

I am 48 and my husband is 58 and Alia our first child. She is the love of our life! She radiates like the sun and keeps us smiling every minute of the day. She smiles all day long, talks and plays. She is so engaged in everything and everyone around her. Alia exudes an essence that is rich and intelligient. She has great things ahead for her.

I love you Alia!!!

Christian from Windsor, Ontario, Canada

Christian is always willing to try something new.

I introduced solids when he was 5 months, by six months he had sprouted 6 teeth and he starting chewing on pita bread and baby cookies.

He loves hummus and also avocado. I cut the avocado in little pieces together with the egg yolk and he just loves it...

He is used to having his meal and dessert afterwards.. I usually give him gerber fruits for dessert.

One of his other favourite foods is home made chicken noodle soup with vegetables. I mushed the veggies with chicken to make a chunky soup and he can eat it forever! Christian is not too crazy about bananas - I have tried many times, but he will only have a few bites and won't eat it anymore. Other than that, he is a good eater and can pretty much eat anything I feed him.

He is a very happy baby and I am so blessed to have him in my life.

Sean, 8 months - from Temple City, CA, USA

To tell you the truth, Sean has no complaints when it comes to feeding time!

He will eat anything and everything when it comes to food, and he sure does devour it. Sean's appetite is so incredible, that when he finally decides that he is done with a meal, his tummy sticks out like Santa Claus!

Sean also loves to drink his formula and juices.

At 8 months old he already has 6 teeth, and there is two more on the way. You can only imagine that everything in arms reach goes straight to the mouth. Sean is my "Hungry Man"!!!!!

Thank you for all your help, advice, suggestions. I really enjoy experimenting and also gaining more knowledge about babies!