Food Please!

A month ago Addison started becoming really interested in our food. I was hesitant to start her on solids because she just seemed so young to me. That hesitation lasted until we were in Washington for my cousin's wedding. I gave her a tiny bit of cake and she LOVED it. I tried her on rice cereal and it just wasn't working for her. Then, yesterday, I decided to have another go at it. Well, as it turns out, a few weeks can make a HUGE difference in a baby's development because she took to rice cereal like a fish to water. She LOVES it. I started her off with rice cereal mixed with gerber 1st starts apple sauce and a little bit of warm water to thin it out and warm it up. Our first attempt was a complete mess but a lot of fun. Of course, afterward a bath was in order as she had it EVERYWHERE. Here are a few pictures and a video from our experience:

I guess we'll have to teach her how to eat with her mouth closed...

"This is really great stuff Mom!"
Addison likes to eat it with her hands in her mouth...we tried to have her NOT do that today as it made a HUGE mess.



After our first experience, we learned to take Addison's clothes off and have her just eat in her diaper as it is really hard to get her in the bath when everything and everybody is covered in rice cereal.

By the way, I KNOW that you will all be skeptical of me until I get a video of this but Addison has said her first word! She says Hi. She said it to me the other day and my mom and Ralph can be witnesses to it. I thought it was a fluke or one time thing BUT today, at church, a person came up to her and said, "Hi Addison!" and Addison promptly said "Hi" back. That was the only noise she made at the time and the person was like, "Did she just say hi to me?!" So, that has been really exciting. It is still really sporadic but she has said it!