First Food

Mmmmmm! Good!

So, today she got her first taste of solids, well as solid as it gets for a first feeding. We fed her Earth's Best Whole Grain Rice Cereal. Very bland, which I guess is good. She seemed to enjoy it. We were expecting funny faces and lots of spitting it out, but she did really well. She made her first feeding really easy on us. Her first cereal mixture was 1 tsp. hot water & 1 tsp. cold water and 3/4 tsp. cereal. So, it was pretty liquidy yet. Daddy probably gave her about half of it. She's only 3 1/2 months old, but we thought this was a good weekend to start since it is a long weekend. Then we can get in the swing of feeding her in the AM before we leave. The plan is that dad is going to feed her cereal in the AM while mom finishes getting ready. We figure dad can feed her solids now since mom feeds her breastmilk. We'll probably just stick to cereal for 2 weeks until we hit 4 months, which is only a couple weeks. Then we will try pureed green beans or something and we'll probably try that in the evening.

Messy Face This was hr first time sitting in her high chair for a long time. She does a good job at it. She sat in it yesterday as I made some homemade visually stimulating rattles (I'll take a picture & post about them later.) There is a huge tray that goes over the high chair, but we don't need that yet. Her bib (it says "I Love Daddy") got a little messy, but that was from daddy spilling on it. She didn't spit out too much. This was only her second time wearing abib, but now I am sure we'll be wearing them a lot more.

Her outfit (which lasted an hour) is a Carter's romper that came from mommy's godmother and Isabel's great aunt, Barb. She's in a new Carter's outfit (a gender neutral one) that mommy bought. It's a 2-piece one with a shirt and overalls. Very soft, very cute. Daddy says that he thinks it's the cutest outfit yet, but daddy is also more drawn to the outfits & jammies that are gender neutral & boyish. I think if we ever decide to have another child & end up having a boy, it might be dad doing a lot of clothes shopping (although, mom would still do A LOT! I can't help it.)