Lucky Number Slevin

Already 7 months old - and today she'll get to meet her 2 month old cousin Ava! We're so excited! Now if we can just make it across Kentucky to the airport (and back) without getting frsutrated about being in the carseat...

So Cheerful

We have been truly blessed with the easiest and most cheerful baby. Serena has had a cold of varying severity for almost a month now. Having a cold makes me pretty cranky. But not Serena - she remains so cheerful. And she continues to put up with a fairly ridiculously busy and irregular schedule without breakdowns or nighttime wakefulness.
We took her for her checkup and shots today - she's weighing in at 12 lbs 11 oz and is 26 1/2 inches. That makes her pretty light but long.

Baby Experimentation

We have found that not all babies enjoy sweet things. Despite the many stories we hear about children just loving fruit, Serena is already proving to us that she is an individual. Rice cereal has been a mainstay for her for the past couple of months, so for Christmas we thought we would give her a special treat; Bananas!

Nearly 3 weeks later, bananas are still in the experimentation phase along with peas and apple sauce. Not a single one of these items has gone down easily, or at all really, but we will overcome. The bananas showed us her first sour face, and a refusal to eat anything else that evening, the peas helped her to pronounce her first word, Bleeck, and the apple sauce combined the sour face with self-inflicted gagging and subsequent vomit. Thus far only the bananas have made it past her tonsils, but once she learned to gag herself, they have not entered paradise again.

The list of experimental foods grows larger each month, so squash, sweet potatoes, and peaches loom on the horizon and they will have their day soon. But here’s to squishing food into tiny non-chewable, easily digestible, nearly drinkable particles. Cheers!

Joshua