Sophie and the Solid Food

Nine and one half months is late to be introducing Sophie to solid foods and she is VERY resistant to it. First we did rice cereal, which she hated. Then we did green beans mixed with rice cereal (ped’s advice), which she hated. Green beans everywhere. Today we’re starting carrots. This solid food thing is the only real “issue” that Sophie has thus far.

I think her problem is with the texure of the food in her mouth. That and she’s simply used to her bottle. But we’ll keep it at it. I had one parent tell me it took her three months to get her baby used to taking solid foods.

In all other aspects she seems to be adjusting very well. Her development is steady. She’s much, much stronger than day one and getting stronger every day. It’s been amazing to watch her go from infant-like to sitting up on her own. She’s picked up roughly a month of development for every week she’s been with us. She’s still not caught up, but we have time. No rush.

Sophie in her high chair waiting for the carrots to steam….

….in the “Babycook”. My MIL brought this wonderful appliance from Belgium. It steams and then blends veggies, fruit, meat to make homemade baby food. I could find NOTHING like this in the United States. It’s awesome.

Sophie and the carrots. She didn’t think they were TOOOOO bad.

 

Our dining room has been overtaken with baby stuff….

But we don’t mind.

Get aload of Sophie’s schedule. I don’t know if it will stay this way, buuuut….. she sleeps for ten to twelve hours a night. She doesn’t wake up for bottles or anything. Sleeps straight through. At first I kept going in to make sure she was all right. Apparently she’s just got great crib skills (no big surprise there) and is a deep sleeper. She also takes two naps a day, once in the mid-morning and once in the afternoon.

Three times a day I get her down on the floor and we work on sitting up and standing, ect. Today she stood with her legs locked and feet flat on the floor for the longest time ever. It tires her out, though, so we do this in short frequent spans. She’s really getting the sitting on her own thing down.

Look at me! I can sit up all by myself. And I love linkadoos. They’re my favorite toy.

I love the bouncy too, esp when mom and dad play music to dance to.

Dad went back to work today. We miss him.