Should he eat sausage? This was chicken-apple sausage without all those preservatives, so I don't think there's anything wrong with it. We gave him ham yesterday, too, which probably wasn't the greatest idea, with all that sodium. But man, do I have to eat only whole foods when I'm cooking for him? Maybe so.

I made it with pasta, one of his favorite things in the whole world. I actually used a whole-wheat penne because I've grown to want that texture, sometimes. It's just a completely different animal from regular pasta, the same way fresh pasta is just different from dried, a different beast. So while the pasta water was coming to a boil I diced and sauteed two sausages, then I added a sliced onion to that and sauteed it until all the slices were soft and brown. By then the pasta was in the water and I scooped a bit of the pasta cooking water into the pan with the sausage and onion, then put the lid on it to try to get the onions cooked even further. When the pasta was done I fished it out of the water with my slotted spoon and added it (and any water clinging to it) to the sausage and onions. Cooked a bit to meld the flavors. Todd and I ate ours with grated cheese on top. August had a hard time chewing the sausage, but part of the reason for that was he liked it so much he was getting his mouth too full of the sausage to actually chew - so out it comes. It's amazing what doesn't gross you out once you're a parent.

I made chocolate pudding for dessert. August would have a bite, scrunch up his face and kind of smack his tongue against the roof of his mouth, like he was mulling it over, then open his mouth for more.