Carrots

Ella had some carrots for the first time yesterday on her half birthday. She did better with them than I expected, but of course they will take some getting used to. We started introducing solids about a month ago. We started with just Ella's usual breast milk on a spoon. She did really well with that and so we started adding some rice cereal mix into her milk and increased the amount each time. Eventually we got that to about the same consistency as baby food.  She has started to really enjoy this and likes to take the spoon and try to get it in her mouth herself.  She also likes to cram her whole hand in her bowl and lick her cereal off her hands.  She has even picked up her whole bowl when it was all gone.  When I baked some pumpkin muffins last week I gave her a little of the pumpkin puree mixed with water and her whole body shuddered at the surprise of the new taste. She did better with the carrots though so we will just keep trying.  There are more pictures of her new eating adventure here (pictures with post )

6 months

Happy Half Birthday to our little sweetie! She is now able to sit up for short amounts of time and loves to test out her vocal cords making weird noises. She weighs 17.5 pounds which puts her in about the 75th percentile. She is getting to be such a big girl.