Cheeri-oatie-o’s!
pamelamyers | June 14, 2010
We have some very exciting news! As I may have mentioned before, Sam has been moving along really slowly with her solid foods. She is just not that into them. She will eat her baby food, but not that much at one time. She is still only eating about a 1/3 of a jar at a time, and she really does not like her vegetables. It has been slow going, and I am trying to not get frustrated and to let her go at her own pace. This weekend, she did really well, not only did she eat her peas and brown rice on more than one occasion, but she actually seemed to enjoy it! I had to mix the veggies in oatmeal, but hey, whatever works. But even more exciting is that on Saturday, June 12, she ate her very first Cheerios!! Mark has been waiting for this forever since Cheerios are his favorite cereal. He eats them all the time and couldn’t wait to share the experience with Samantha. It is so funny, she will put anything and everything in her mouth and we are always dragging things away from her. But food, no. Food she will not put in her mouth on her own. But if you feed them to her, she will eat them right up. So Mark sat and fed her Cheerios one by one and she really liked them! On Sunday we were at Mark’s parents for an early Father’s Day dinner and she had Rice Krispies there which were also a hit. Yay Sam! I hope she is on the road to eating better and better.
I gave her some Cheerios in a bowl today which she, of course, promptly dumped out, but she had fun with the bowl. She is so silly. I did get her to eat some Cheerios in between silliness though : )
Here are some additional recent pictures of Samantha. This first one was taken last Sunday in her Exersaucer. We try to give her time there as often as possible because she really loves it. We have been using it since she was about 5 months old, and it took a long time before she got the hang of it and was able to really make it work on her own. We used to have to push every button and make everything work for her amusement. Now she is in total control, and makes all the songs play, and the lights light on her own.
These next ones were also taken just last week not long after she started crawling. I love this first pose. For a while she was doing this frequently. I think she looks like she is doing downward facing dog in yoga!
Here she is actually crawling! She LOVES the remote control. It is the one thing, besides my laptop, that sends her sailing across the room. Don’t you love the look of utter concentration on her face?
We recently got a new shed because our old one was in sad shape and was really way too small to house all the stuff we already had, not to mention all the stuff we will have soon now that we have Sam. It was packed to the rafters, and there was definitely no room for a bike, a sled, a wagon, and anything else Sam will accumulate. While Mark was doing some work on organizing the new shed Sam and I sat in our backyard. She was trying out the new beach toys that my mom got her. There’s no sand, but she looks like she is having fun anyway!
Last but not least, this one was taken actually a few weeks ago, but there are not many photos where Zephyr will let Sam near her for very long, so I wanted to post it. I love seeing them together.
