The little monster has been growing like gangbusters (yay!), but its exhausting her poor mommy who has been her sole source of nutrition. We saw her pediatrician at 5 months for her RSV prevention shot (a preemie perk, expensive though), and the doctor asked, "Um, have you considered starting solids for her?" So we did! and here is a picture of Iain giving her her 2nd spoonful of rice cereal (he was going to do the 1st, but Daddy needed to show him how.):
She is very much enjoying her solid foods, though she (of course, they're different kids) attacks them in a very different way than Iain did. Iain was an explosion of movement, the food went everywhere as he grinned in delight. Ria is very focused and will typically only let the spoon in her mouth if she can do the maneuvering, which needless to say is messy too, just messy in a different way (a smaller radius, for one thing!) than it was with Iain. I put the spoon maybe 1 cm in front of her face, and her little fists curl over the handle, and she pulls it in and mutilates it for a bit, until I show up with a new spoonful.In other pictures....I got my hair cut, so that now i no longer look like an overgrown weed that went and clippered off all her hair in December. Now my hair has an actual shape. I think i will allow more photos of me now! I don't think i could ever have handled this haircut before the clipper cut insanity (it doesn't look at all like the "me" i've been used to) but now that i've experienced Extreeme Hair, i must say it looks darn good! Here's me and the kids. (Ria's looking cranky due to hunger, not just because her brother insisted that she wear a ponytail. Yes, its a very silly ponytail, but Iain loves it ;-)
And, finally, the promised giggles. Can't actually put movies on blogger, so here's the movie thumbnail picture....click on it for a link to the video of Ria giggling.
