growing right along...
Milestones this week:
Ivy is really starting to play with toys-- grabbing them, moving them around, chewing on them, turning them and examining them. Too cute. She does this slow motion grab where she studies the object and then oh-so-carefully reaches out her open hands until she makes contact, little lip pouting out in concentration...
We gave her a first taste of solids this week. some rice cereal mixed with breast milk... there's this little bit of me that is hoping by starting her on food earlier we'll ward off the picky eater syndrome, that we messed up somehow with Jackie...I know, a month and a half is probably not going to change a thing, but at any rate she has seemed interested in our food so we gave it a shot. The first batch was a bit thick, I think, and it all came right back out of her mouth. Tonight I think she actually managed to swallow a few watery bites, and kept opening her mouth for more tastes for quite a while.
Tonight's other experiment was bathing the kiddos together in the big tub. I just plopped Ivy's baby tub in there-- thank goodness for a long tub!-- filled with nice warm water for her, then filled the rest all tepid and bubbly the way the boy likes it. I think they both enjoyed it a lot. Ivy was all smiles, like usual at bathtime, but they did seem to be directed at her brother. And Jack had a blast piling one toy after another into her tub -- "This one is for my sister!"-- pouring little capfuls of his bathwater in for her, and putting bubbles on her tummy. It was pretty much the cutest thing ever.
Oh yeah-- the girl can sit in tripod for a good 15 seconds ad can sit up tall, reaching out for something, for 2 or 3 seconds, before she topples over and laughs about it.
She is only taking about 15 minutes of crying to settle down to sleep in her crib these days-- an improvement, really. Now we are just hoping for the return of sleeping from 9 til 4am or so. Please. Anytime, Ivy Jane...
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