starting solid food!

We started Abby on solid food on Nov 21st.  We started with just regular old baby rice cereal.  We were all ready with our phones for photo & video and she barely even reacted!! She was just like, Oh ok we are doing this now? I'm eating with a spoon? That's cool.

She did seem to enjoy it, and she had no problem figuring out the spoon. In fact, she was barely even phased by the spoon, as I said.  I had initially bought those metal spoons with the rubbery coating but I actually went out & got the Munchkin brand spoons b/c they are more spoon like as opposed to flat, and it's way easier to feed her. 

We had her eat the rice cereal for maybe a week and a half before introducing veggies.  I was going to start with fruit but everyone said you are supposed to start with veggies, b/c if you start with fruit they won't want to eat the veggies.  We gave her peas about 3 days ago and again, barely any reaction from her! LOL. 

She does seem to enjoy the solid food. She sticks out her tongue when she sees the spoon coming and I think she is starting to recognize the bowl & spoon when we come toward her.  She is still only eating about a teaspoon of cereal at a time but we have been giving it to her in the thicker consistency and she is enjoying that.  She eats about a tablespoon of the peas...we are going to do sweet potatoes tomorrow night so stay tuned for how that goes :)

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We had Thanksgiving at my house this year...I thought Abby would be really overwhelmed with all the people (esp my family as they are LOUD) but she did ok.  Obviously Maria and I were busy the whole time, so she was with a lot of other people: Caren, Nicole, Deanna, Caren's mom, and she did great. I managed to keep her on her schedule, too.  (Kudos for mommy!)  

She had a moment of being overwhelmed downstairs.  We bought the high chair down there since that is where we had it set up for everyone to eat...and I guess all the people & the unfamiliar area (we are barely ever in the basement  -- no furniture down there!) freaked her out! I wasn't down there, but Howie said that he sat down w/ his food & she looked around and got that quivery lip and that scared look in her eyes and started crying. We took her upstairs where it was quiet and she was ok.  I also had to bring her in the bedroom to calm down for a bit so she would take her bottle, b/c she was crying in the living room.  But overall she did really good, so I'm glad for that.  Next year will be a bit easier since she'll be almost a year and a half old.

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Speaking of which, someone is going to be 5 months old soon!!

These days she is blowing lots of raspberries, enjoys playing with her big bendy ball, chewing on all sorts of things, watching the cats (she smiles when she sees them now), and grabbing her toys if she is in a sitting position.   She can roll over but she seems lazy about it, as in, she doesn't want to. She really dislikes tummy time.  She starts to cry (like really cry, with real tears!) if you don't pick her up after a while. I was really trying to get her to do tummy time this morning and I wasn't picking her up right away and she was pretty upset by the time I did pick her up! 

She likes to sleep on her side. Sometimes she just immediately goes on her side & starts to suck her thumb as soon as you lay her down. She enjoys her projector before she goes to sleep too.