{alternate title:  20 or so of my favorite pics of her first solids!}

I have been pretty good recently about not posting EVERY picture I have.  However, these are all so sweet, I just couldn’t resist.  I do looooove my baby girl, and this first feeding of something other than breastmilk is a pretty big deal!  {Right?}  I had planned to wait until Lizzie girl was 6 months, but this girl knows what she wants.  She has been eyeing us for weeks, almost with a suspicious look, as if questioning why we aren’t sharing with her.  This suspicion has escalated to trying to grab our drinks and food, so we decided as long as I fed her after a nursing session, “solids” would only add to her caloric intake.  Josh requested to be present for her first solids {evidently I did Luke’s without him, which was a big bummer- oops.} .  Rebekah and Luke also wanted to be here, so yesterday we did it after breakfast.  Everyone was so excited- I found that I dreamed about it through the night and woke up excited for this new developmental step, tho I’ll admit a bit of sadness in starting what eventually will wean her.  Lizzie was like a little bird and didn’t even spit out any!  She just gobbled it up {it= organic rice cereal with breastmilk}, and when she was full, she quit opening her mouth and leaning in for more.

I’ll admit many of these are similar, but some of her expressions are priceless, and who am I to deprive you of sheer cuteness?

I plan on keeping up small amounts of rice cereal in the am’s, and I’ll mix in some fruits at some point.  I always make my own baby food, though she is not old enough for my homemade brown rice cereal, which I may or may not do this time around.  Everything else I’ll do myself for sure.  I LOVE making baby food and feeding babies!  Next, I’ll add in a “tea time” {aka dinner} meal.

As for the rest of her development, she has been sleeping until 6am!  I still feed her at 10 {wake her}, then she goes until 6 instead of 5.  She usually eats and goes back down until somewhere between 7 and 8am.  She stays awake for 2-2 1/2 hours and usually takes pretty good naps {1.5hrs+}.  She is still very happy, busy, and nosey.  She has to be where everything is going on and loves her siblings’ attention.  She is pretty fond of me, too.  She laughs if you kiss her tummy, and most fussy times are cured with a song that incorporates her feet in some way.  She is a doll and only getting more amazing every day.