Five months and "eating"!

First off - Happy birthday Mom Mom!

Katie also had a "birthday" yesterday...5 months old! Unfortunately, we did not celebrate with cake, but had our first meal of rice cereal. It was the first time we used her new highchair and (so far) we love it and it looks great in our kitchen! It is the Graco Contempo chair in the Hemmingway pattern.

-3 position recline

-6 position height adjustment

-dishwasher safe tray

-easily folds in half for storage (collapses to only 8 inches wide!!!)

She did not quite understand why I was putting a rubber spoon into her mouth and she wasn't sure what to do with it. The first few tastes resulted in a sour-puss face, but eventually she discovered the big, plastic, pink bib and that was VERY amusing. We fed her Beechnut Rice cereal and prepared the recommended 1 TBSP mixed with her formula, in a bowl. You are probably thinking, just 1 TBSP? We thought the same thing...until it took us about 30 minutes of feeding to get through half of it. Once she understands to open her mouth and swallow, we will start with some veggies. I can't wait!

4 month milestones

Before Katie turns 5 months old, I thought I better post her 4 month pictures! I don't know where the time has gone, but I just realized I hadn't posted in 3 weeks. Oops!

Katie is doing great. She's 14 pounds, 9 oz and 26 3/4 inches long. She has outgrown almost all her clothes and now wears 9 to 12 month outfits. We've started using her exersaucer now. She is amused for about 10 minutes and then wants to be held, of course.

We're going to start her on rice cereal at the 5 month mark and then veggies a couple weeks after that. We hope that she takes to them better than her bottle, which now bores her. She rarely finishes her bottle and blows raspberries (or cries) until we take the bottle away. What Collins/Lamken doesn't like to eat? We need to train her apparently!

She's sitting up really well (with help, of course). Her new "trick" is pulling her head up in an attempt to sit up herself. She can't do it but strains her neck trying...we hope that she starts sitting alone soon before her poor neck falls off. My little baby is getting so big :(