The two times each night that I get up (at a minimum) are spent making dairy products and looking at the internet. I've also been known to have a snack. But I am alone with my thoughts and most of those thoughts involve the sheer resistance to falling asleep on the kitchen table.
We gave Emma her first taste of rice cereal on Wednesday, January 30. She did not like it. I ended up with rice cereal on my face.
We gave Emma her second taste of rice cereal on Thursday night. She was already tired and fussy (ok, I was too). She did not like it. But, David pretended to eat it and eventually with me continually sticking the spoon in her mouth, she gave lots less tears at the end. I may have managed to get David to accidentally have a small taste of rice cereal with breast milk. My greatest accomplishment since Emma!
She is getting too big. Eating grown up food. As grown up as rice cereal is. It looks like snowflakes. Where did my baby infant daughter go?
When she was little, I wrote down all of the things I loved about her. At least the ones I could tangibly come up with at 1:00, 3:00, 5:00 and 6:00 in the morning.
- She pretends to drink milk when she's just about dead asleep. Her lips go back and forth and it's precious. She then gives a sideways smile. All while asleep!
- She sometimes snores. She got that from her Dad.
- She throws her arms up in the air when she's startled, which happens quite easily.
- Not a fan of tummy time. Will cry and whine from the time she's placed on said tummy and then picked back up. Like nothing happened.
- Doesn't mind a bath, but hates drying her hair with the towel. Gracie hates that too, actually.
More things to love about the amazing Emma...
...the face she makes when stretching after waking up or drinking a lot of milk...how she looks like a baby doll when asleep...how she puts her hands next to her mouth when she starts to eat...her little feet...how much she sucks on her fist when she's hungry....her wide-awakeness first thing in the morning...how she sticks her bottom lip out before she starts crying...when she blinks her eyes and looks around when she's eating...her cooing and talking when changing her diaper...how she kicks when she's awake and isn't being held...her eyelashes...her smile when I blow on her belly...
How she lights up our lives in ways I didn't know possible. You've got big things ahead of you Emma Rose, slow down and enjoy the rice cereal!
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