More solids!

Cute picture of the baby girl in the bath.

Well we've just been introducing more and more things into Bailey's diet. So far she has sweet potatoes, avacados, rice cereal, oatmeal, and prunes. She's doing very well and we haven't found anything that our little chunky monkey doesn't enjoy. She is even holding the spoon and strong arms it until she realizes there's nothing left on it. Everything she's eaten so far that can be homemade is, except the prunes because it was kind of urgent that she get those (since the cereals are kind of stopping her up, sorry for the TMI). But I plan on making the rest of the prunes she gets homemade. It's time consuming but I love doing it for her! She's sleeping better now that we're giving her solids and we have her on a schedule (mostly) for eating and sleeping. Last night she went from 7 pm until 4:30 am without nursing. I nursed for about half the time I usually do because I'm trying to get her out of the habit of those nightly feedings. It's usually only once a night but I'm pretty sure she is only waking up out of habit rather than real hunger. But she took to it just fine and even slept about a half an hour later than usual. Too bad mommy had to get to for work anyway!

With Mike leaving soon, we're planning on possibly taking a day trip to the beach so he can see her at the beach for the first time. We're trying to get as many firsts in with him here as possible. Maybe he'll even get to see her first tooth because she is teething up a storm! She'll be five months old next week and I just can't even believe it. She's such a big girl.

Good news about me though, I've basically lost all of my pregnancy weight. Haha, only took almost five months. Things still aren't the same but I'm working on it. With Mike leaving, grad school starting (I'll be starting on my Masters in Psyc at the end of this month, for all that didn't know), and work picking up more, I don't have much time to work out but I'm eating much better and I think it shows. Go me!