Double Fisting

It's rare for Evie to sit and play with toys these days.  She prefers to walk back and forth in the house with something in her hand or better yet, both hands.

Giving her milk to hold while she does her laps is a perfect way for me to get some quality milk drinking in. 

She went back and forth between her sippy and
straw cup for a solid 5 minutes. 

Evie also likes to put the objects in her hands down and examine them.  She puts them down, raises an eyebrow, then selects one to pick up.  I wonder what is going on in her smart little brain

Evie has been down to her bedtime bottle for about a week.  We had a few minor setbacks on our trip to Boston, but that was expected.  Last night we ran out of bottle liners, so it was cold turkey, good bye bottles for good (hopefully...).  Since I usually give her the bottle at bed, Jason put her to bed without me.  It worked like a gem.  Let's hope there will be no more bottle washing until December!

In other drinking related news, the carton of formula FINALLY ran out yesterday as well.  It's not that Evie wouldn't drink whole milk without it, it was that I wasn't about to waste any penny of that $23 carton of formula. 

Welcome to toddlerhood, Ev!  No bottles, no formula, just straws and sippies from here out.  It went much better than I expected :)

Who-hash

Disclaimer: My title is Auntie Laura language for rice cereal. As I was typing it, it sounds a little like a code name for drugs. My drug-free sister and I would know nothing about code names, so if it is, I am not feeding my child weed or smoking it myself.

Despite conflicting reports from Evie's doctors, we decided to give rice cereal a try. I was very skeptical at first since getting Evie to eat from a bottle was a 16 week, $100,000 investment. But since any extra calories in Evie is a plus, we gave it a whirl.

And she eats who-hash from a spoon at 5 months.

Solid.

I've seen enough slop pictures of infants eating solids that I know it can be a messy endeavor. Evie allowed the spoon near her mouth, moved her lips correctly, and let that slimy stuff into her belly. The mess comes when Evie decides to suck her thumb in between spoon-fulls. She likes to do a suck-her-thumb-rub-her-eyes action. Whatever gets the stuff down, girlfriend.

Jason does a great job spoon feeding and I find the bottle my sport. Great team parenting effort!

Rice Cereal