Well that does it

Genevieve has now officially outgrown her car seat. We've already bought a larger one and when she comes back from her trip to Georgia this weekend she will start using it. What amazes me -- and apparently all the bookmakers who were laying odds on this -- is that she is not too heavy for her car seat; she is too long for it. Who would have thought that her meteoric weight gains would be eclipsed by her growth.

We are still getting comments about her being a very big baby at least now she is a big baby in all aspects as opposed to just one. She is now a well rounded big baby when before she was just...well...round.

The doctor also said that her crankiness of late is probably due to the fact that she is ready for solid food and that milk just isn't keeping her sated. We had our first attempt at a feeding tonight. She did really well, all things considered, but she still doesn't have the whole concept of eating down.



Here is G just starting out.


Basically we are feeding her rice cereal mixed with milk. It looks a lot like porridge but very thin. At first she didn't understand the concept of opening her mouth and almost everything ran down her chin. Then once she started opening she attempted to block the spoon with her tongue.


Most of the food ended up on her bib or chin but she did eat some of it.



She made some horrendous faces though. Maybe it was the taste, maybe it was the food but she certainly didn't seem to be enjoying it. However we were laughing so hard during the entire feeding that she couldn't help but grin and giggle along with us.