solid food!

yep, she did it, she had solid food today! well, very liquid-y rice cereal to be more precise. earlier this week i bought fancy-dancy, whole grain, organic, non-processed rice cereal (earth's best) and our good friend Karen gave us a lovely silver spoon! so this morning we got everything set up for her, and we even put her in the fancy dress her great-grandpa and auntie Sharon gave her for the special occasion. she did AWESOME!

we made up a couple teaspoons of food, and though she probably only ate one (or maybe even less), she did great with it. unfortunately, the beautiful spoon was just a bit too big and metal-y for her - she really likes to chomp down - so for now we switched over to a baby spoon with soft plastic on the spoon-end.

at first she made these great "what the heck is this stuff?!" faces...then she moved on to, "hey, this ain't too shabby!"...and then she was sucking it off the spoon and motioning for more! she especially loved the spoon, and sometimes it was hard to get it back from her so that we could load it up with more chow.

all in all, i think it was a great success, and we're looking forward to more rice cereal tomorrow! right now, she's taking a little snooze after her big morning. we have a quick video of her first meal, but i'm having some trouble downloading it. hopefully we can get it up soon! love to everyone!!