Today we hit another milestone. Katherine is ready for the restaurant high chair. We are excited because our car seat is wider than the standard Graco version that 99.9% of all new moms have. So, it does not fit in the restaurant high chairs which is not too safe anyway. Anytime we would eat out (way to often) we sould take Katherine in her car seat in the stroller. Well now she is sitting well enough to sit in a high chair. This will be so much easier. She really liked it.
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Today we started “solid” foods with Katherine. I have to admit, I was a little sad. It means my little girl is growing up and is going to need me less, at least when it comes to eating. As my mom said though, she has to start eating sometime. Mom, you are right, I will not be breastfeeding my college student, or even my preschool student for that matter. So, I knew I had to begin sometime.
I have been putting off starting solids for as long as possible. Part of it was pride. I wanted to say that I exclusively breastfed Katherine for her first 6 months. Well, we started three days before that date, but she was born three days late so that is OK. I also put it off because breastfeeding is so easy and convenient. Her food is always ready, it is free and I love that time where we have one another’s undivided attention. I did not look forward to having to prepare food and spend a lot of time getting her to eat it. I do not look forward to having to pack food and snacks when we go out. And I especially do not look forward to the stinky diapers that come with solids.
Last week I really realized that I should not wait any longer. Katherine has been showing some of the signs of readiness for the past few weeks. She has able to sit in a high chair and hold her head steady. She has been showing interest in and grabbing for our food. And, she has been eating much more frequently for the past week or two. That was when I realized that even though I would like to put it off, she really needed to start solid food.
So, we waited until this morning to that Sam could be there to watch and video. I prepared homemade sweet potato baby food a few days ago. We put her in her high chair, got out her fancy silver cup and spoon, strapped on the new bib and went for it.
The first bite brought a funny face. She scrunched up her eyebrows and looked at us with a questioning face. But, it all stayed in her mouth! She kept giving us funny looks, but she kept opening her mouth when the spoon came at her. It was obvious when she was done because she no longer would open her mouth. I would guess that she ate between one and two tablespoons. On the final attempt, she grabbed the spoon so she had sweet potato all over her hands.
I took a look at our statcounter last night to see how many people have been visiting our blog and where they were from. This is always interesting to me. It seems that some of you out there are repeat visitors but I have no clue who you are. So, identify yourself if you are from Virginia (linking from Chrys’s blog), Florida, New York, Mansfield, etc.
Until this week all my visitors had been from the US. Then my friend Tamara from Australia visited. The oddest visitor though was from Turkey. I thought, who in the world do I know from Turkey. No one that I could think of. My friend Amy has been there so I thought maybe she had told her friend that lives there to look at my blog. I have looked at theirs. Then I saw how they linked to our blog. It was a google search. How random. I wonder what they were really looking for?
