Growing up

Sienna is growing up way too fast, and I'm happy and sad. I'm happy that I get to watch her grow and learn and play more interactively, but I'm sad that already she's not my little newborn anymore. I'm afraid to blink and have 5 years gone by. She just keeps getting more fun though, so it helps.

Big thing: Sienna started eating solid foods last week! We still don't have a high chair so it's a little difficult and messy feeding her, but she seems to really like it. For now she's only eating 1/2 Tbs of brown rice cereal in 2 Tbs of formula once a day. I want to start veggies, but I really want to get the high chair first. coughcoughericcough.... Anyways, it's really cute watching her eat. She opens her mouth really wide when she sees the spoon coming. She's getting better at keeping it in her mouth too. The first time was hilarious, she kept smiling and the cereal would just drip out. For some reason we didn't use the soak proof bibs the first two times, so that was a learning experience. So I got a book on baby food making called Super Baby Food by Ruth Yaron. So far I've only had the opportunity to read a few chapters, but I find it really interesting, and I can't wait to get to the recipes. She suggests making your own cereal, but our pediatrician advised against it because of the iron fortification of commercial cereals. The authors reasons for making your own is that most commercial cereals are made using white rice, but we bought organic brown rice cereal from Happy Baby Food. So I don't feel bad.