A Fruit A Week

So pretty much as soon as I found out I was pregnant I started trying to come up with ideas of how to track the baby's growth in fun ways. We decided on doing a fruit a week, based off of the size of the baby by comparing it to fruit or veggies. This seemed fun and creative so we started right away, at week 5. 

We had no idea what we were signing up for! Now we have weekly trips to the grocery store hoping to find something close to the size needed. I have a few apps that tell me the size of the baby each week, with a few discrepancies between them. I didn't consider that we'd have to account for the fact that fruits go in and out of season, some of the fruits only get imported to specialty stores around here, and that while there might be an average eggplant 'size' that doesn't mean the ones we have at our local grocery store are even close. It's also turned out to be a little more pricey of a project than I'd initially thought. However, after 30 weeks I do love looking back and seeing all of the fruits and veggies Lincoln has already 'outgrown'. Sometimes I jokingly tell my husband 'well, that was back when we had a blueberry baby...' 

Though the grocery store trips are sometimes frustrating, I do enjoy the memories Luke and I are creating by going and picking out our baby fruit each week. We've gotten more than a few strange looks when we've spent 20+ minutes wandering around the produce section of the grocery store holding and comparing seemingly unrelated fruits or vegetables, and have had to explain ourselves more than once when buy things like a single Brussels sprout, but it's been fun and I'll always treasure those memories. 

This project has also got me cooking with things I wouldn't normally try - like a Jimcama, which is basically a Mexican potato. 

It's crazy to think that we only have a handful of fruit photoshoots left, but at the same time it will be nice to not have to worry about it anymore. Either way, it's been fun to be able to look back and see how far we've already made it!

Weeks 5 (appleseed) through 34 (butternut squash).