What A Beautiful Mess :-)

     For all those who I have not mentioned this to, Leona doubled her birthweight at two months!!! Don't get me wrong, I love having a perfectly healthy girl, but she can put down almost 20oz of breastmilk between 4pm and 10pm.  So for the last few days I've been really excited to begin her on rice cereal.  Four months was my mark, but given her sudden appetite I sped things up a bit.  Leona turned 3 months 4 weeks today and I decided to go ahead and jump on into the world of solids (well, more solid than breastmilk).  Basically, I just wanted to give her a little extra bulk in the evening so she wouldn't be so ravenous in the evenings for her bottle.  Let me just tell you, the experience was hysterical.

"First time in my highchair! How cute am I?"

     We got her all strapped into her highchair and she looked like such a big girl.  Every milestone she achieves is so amazing.  Who would have known that putting my baby girl in her highchair for the first time would make me so proud.  Not to mention the newest phase of solid foods.

The first bite!

     She was a little unsure about the taste at first, but gradually got used to it.  I noticed that she still does some tongue thrusting, which makes eating with a spoon very unproductive.  Hence why she has more on her face and bib than in her tummy.

  It probably doesn't help that daddy is feeding my gums and not my mouth. I guess it will take some getting used to for all of us. Overall, it was an awesome first experience with rice cereal.  She took about 3-4 tablespoons in the end.  The jury is still out on whether any of that went to her belly. For now, we are doing one cereal feeding a day to help her get accustomed to the idea of using her tongue. I'm definately looking forward to more fun with Leona and her highchair antics.

Our beautiful mess!!!