Thursday, June 29, 2006
Bye, Bye Baby Food
Last night Kristin and I decided that we will be buying no more jars of baby food. Julia is absolutely uninterested in being spoon-fed. Absolutely.
Oh, sometimes she'll consent to letting us give her some oatmeal. Sometimes some fruit. But for the most part unless she's sticking it in her mouth herself, she wants nothing to do with it. This doesn't apply to bottles, of course, those she still wants us to hold for her. But since she only wants a bottle when she's going to sleep for naps or bed, I can see her point.
At this point in her life, Julia eats everything we do. She has 7 teeth now, and enjoys chewing just as much as she enjoys picking things up and sticking them in her mouth. So at dinner time, we simply take what we're eating on the grownup table and cut it up into pieces for her, toss it on her tray (no messing around with plates in our house) and let her at it.
She'll eat anything: Sushi. Pizza. Vindaloo. She loves grapes.
She doesn't care for watermelon. Oh, yes, and she HATES egg yolks. But that's it. 2 things we've found that she doesn't like, a half-million things that she does.
The only things we don't give her are nuts (not till she's 4, and then we'll do so very, very carefully), and bananas and blueberries. Both those last two give her a rash.
It is just so much fun to feed her. To put new things on her plate and watch her gobble them up. We're going to keep up with the diverse diet and continue to introduce as many new things as possible.
So, no more bottles of unappetizing mush for her!
Wednesday, June 28, 2006
Playing Pigs Ducks
While we were on vacation in Manzanita, Julia's favorite game was called Pigs. See, there were three piglets and they rode on the belly of the mama pig and the game was to pick up all three pigs at once. This kept her entertained for hours, because as soon as she would drop a pig to pick up the third pig, she realized that she still had a pig to pick up. Eventually she decided that holding a pig in her mouth would count, so she tried that. Shortly after this discovery the Oz-dog ate one of her pigs, so the game was over.
Last night I was giving Julia a bath and in the tub were the equivalent to the pigs -- three ducklings riding on the back of a mama duck. Julia had taken two of the ducklings off the mama and the mama floated away. Then, while there were still two ducklings in her hand, the mama came floating back, right between Julia's legs. Without pausing Julia bent down and grabbed that final duckling in her mouth and then straightened, the duckling held firmly in her teeth and held and two fists, a duckling in each, up in the air. Ta Daaaaaaaa!
Monday, June 26, 2006
Relaxed baby
When she was in the womb, we would see on the ulltrasounds how she would lie there with her legs crossed and her arms behind her head...
just like this, in fact.
Some things are just ingrained.
Friday, June 23, 2006
Major Milestone
She CRAWLS!!!!! The older kids at her daycare were excited to announce for us on Wednesday that JULIA IS CRAWLING. Finally. They've all been crawling around on all fours to try to get her to get the idea of how to do it. But no, she was too content scooting around on her butt. And, really, we were happy that way. She can't go very far that way. She can still get into things we don't want her to get into -- the bookshelves and the magazine rack come to mind -- but she couldn't make it all the way to our railing-less stairs that way.
She wouldn't crawl for us all that night. But last night she was sitting on the living room floor with some scattered toys. And Kristin and I were talking and not paying too much attention when we noticed it. Her tentative crawling to wards a toy. She been getting in the crawling position for weeks now as part of her butt-scooting repertoire. But this was for real.
Of course, as soon as we started paying attention to her she stopped doing it. And as soon as I grabbed the camera she was all done. So, no pictures of the event. This picture is of her pulling up at the beach house on vacation.
Now, we've got to the the stairs guarded by rail and gate (and the rest of our house babyproofed) FAST!!!
