Our Kids

Today’s Monday which means I get to spend my morning with the girls. It’s usually a fun morning… I get some quality time with each of the girls individually and then they get to have the fun of ganging up on me for the rest of the time.

Last night Lela gave us a couple of hints that she’s ready for some solid food. Those hints came at 10pm, 2am and 5am. We hear ya, geez!

So I had my orders for the morning… feed Piper her daily dose of Avocado (mmm, mmm, good!) and start giving Lela some yummy (not really) rice cereal. Sounds like fun! And here’s how it went:

Piper really gets into eating… she even wants to help you out which, as it turns out, isn’t so helpful. She grabs for the spoon as it’s just about to get into the mouth. And since she’s a mere seven months old, her “grabbing” is usually off target and turns into punching the spoon right into her cheek. Or eye. Or nose. Or really any part of her face other than her mouth. Mystique already has a picture or two of her “helping” on our flickr site, but I’ll put up a picture of the mess she made on my watch.

I also learned that you want to put on her outfit-for-the-day after you feed her avocado. I realize now that should have been obvious. Oh well.

Looking beyond the helpfulness of Piper, she really seems to enjoy eating the avocado. She ate up her entire serving and topped it off with a glass of milk. Pretty cool stuff.

While Piper and I were face-painting (eating), Lela was sitting next to her doing her standard thing: watching and learning. Once I got done cleaning up Piper’s mess, I whipped up a little rice cereal (no avocado) for Lela. She hasn’t eaten much of this sort of “food” so I was ready for anything.

And as she usually does, Lela suprised me by gobbling up the cereal and loving every minute of it. I even had her opening her mouth as I held the spoon in front of her and closing it when the spoon touched her tongue. She did a little bit of “helping”, but she made no mess whatsoever and ate up the cereal and could probably have eaten more. I didn’t want to push it so I let her top off her meal with some milk, but it’s really great to see how she handled it. We’ll be kicking in some more cereal tonight and hopefully that’ll help her sleep through the night.

I’m typing this while the girls are playing and it just cracks me up the way Lela has learned to flip onto her tummy so well. The problem is that she really doesn’t like being on her tummy and hasn’t quite figured out that she can flip back on her back if she wanted to. So she gets on her tummy, lifts her head up and looks around a bit, then starts crying because she doesn’t like it. Once I flip her back over, she’s happy, plays for a bit… and goes right back to her tummy. Rinse. Repeat.

Now Piper’s playing on the floor and it turns out she does the same thing. I guess I need to get down there and show them how it’s done.

That’s it for now!

jason