Happy Belly

Our pediatrician recommends trying solids around four months. Between this and the motherly intuition that her belly was feeling a bit hollow, we gave her some rice cereal just after she turned four months. From the first feeding she was grabbing the spoon in hopes that this would speed along the process. And now, 3 weeks later and just shy of five months old, she's eating two substantial portions each day. She got stuck on apples for a while (pretty much all Lucas was ever interested in as an infant) but we've really branched out recently. She even goes for a bit of texture (peas ground in the food mill, bananas mashed with my fingers...) So far, we've tried:

-Apples
-Bananas
-Bananas/Avocados
-Peas/Apples/Rice
-Apples/Carrots (not a huge fan of carrots)
-Sweet Potatoes

Lucas's First Big Purchase

We planted the concept of saving into Lucas's mind a few months ago. So he began diligently saving any money given to him by his grandparents and even earning some on the side. He washed his sister's toys for $2 and pureed her zucchini for $1. The $10 end-of-school-year present from us got him two his goal of $22.58 for a Bruder backhoe loader. To extend the lesson in patience, we ordered it from Amazon. Today it arrived and it is AWESOME!

Salad People

After a brief transition period, we are on our summer roll. Wednesday we started our day at Whole Foods for their $1 pasty and coffee deal. A habit that is sure to snowball now that we have nowhere to be in the mornings! Then we burned some energy at Mason Mill Park before going to the library where we picked up "Salad People and More Real Recipes" by Mollie Katzen. It's a great recipe book for kids! I love it because not-yet readers can put things together by looking at the descriptive pictures. Today we made sunrise lemonade (lemon juice, agave subbed for simple syrup, water, a splash of triple berry juice and exactly three ice cubes.) And Lucas loved making a "salad person." (Those are not large ears, they are "microphones" - aka headphones.) Shhhh, we are surprising Daddy and serving them at dinner tomorrow!

Roly Poly

Lucas's Yearbook Entry

"I think it needs another one."

We hammered way too many thumbtacks into the wall to prolong this extremely fun and very important project. When it was over, Lucas asked "what can we build next?" (We are in a HUGE Bob the Builder phase.)

Sofia, Four Months

I took these pics about a week ago and she has already changed so much.

I'm feeling rather uncreative due to all the work I've had around the house lately. One big thing on the agenda is setting up the basement playroom/crawling area/guest room once and for all before I get busy with chasing and feeding Sofia. So here are the stats.

From the 4 month checkup:
16lb 1oz - 95%
26.5 inches- above 95%
Head circumference - 75%

Milestones: No teeth. I thought she was getting them at 3 months, and was sure I felt two points. But now those two dots are still there but no progress has been made.

She sucks her thumb and fingers to comfort herself and is grabbing things very well now.

She rolls around everywhere and is starting to lift herself onto her knees.

I stopped swaddling her a few days ago and thankfully she has transitioned ok.

She wakes up 2-3 times a night to eat and often an additional time with gas. But thankfully she is in her crib for the majority of 7:30pm - 7:30am.

Still a joy!