So Jeff and I were talking about creating a blog for Sophie for our friends and families, and blogger is SO easy to set up with... so I figured I'd try this out.
Jeff and I have tons of pictures that we truly enjoy sharing with everyone, and goodness knows so much happens in Sophie's life on a daily basis that we can hardly keep up with her. Hopefully this too will help me to keep track of when the little and big milestones happened for Sophie - almost like a baby book. So in that spirit, there are a few new things that we can share that started this week.
Sophie has officially started eating vegetables. Over the weekend, I baked a couple sweet potatoes, and pureed them in the cuisinart. I used some ice cube trays to make little servings, and voila! I have baby food! Sophie really likes her sweet potatoes too! So far, she eats (and loves) rice cereal, oatmeal and sweet potatoes. I think this weekend I'll pick up a couple avocados and see if she likes that too. I bought a book on making baby food, which had a great list of things to serve to a new eater... I'm just going to work my way down the list I think.
Second, Sophie has begun to babble in a new way. Before, she would sort of make a syllable sound of "gah" or "buh" once in a while, but didn't really do consonant sounds in sucession a lot. This week she has all of a sudden really opened up and started repeating syllables again and again, in a very expressive manner. When she wakes up in the mornings, she will talk to herself for a while in her crib, and I think she's really practicing how to say things. It's very cute.
I broke down and went shopping yesterday. I'd been bit by the shopping bug a few weeks back, and put it off as long as I could. I bought her a couple new toys: a cloth basket and foam alphabet letters to fill and dump, a couple cloth soft blocks, and a new teether. I had been feeling like she was getting bored with the toys she had, and so I bought these few new ones... only to look around the living room this morning and realize that it was overrun with toys everywhere. Oh well, I'll put a few away again for later. I can see how houses just get completely covered in toys very easily! I wonder what will happen when Sophie's a toddler... will I ever get our living room clean?
It just seems amazing to me that she's almost 6 months old already. It's happened so fast, and I feel like I'm not keeping good enough track of everything. I hope we've taken enough pictures - I would hate for Sophie to grow up and wonder what her childhood looked like. I think we're probably good, but then I hear of parents who take a picture or two of their child almost every day. Oh well, I'm not a scrapbooker anyway, so goodness knows how we'll get those pictures in albums to begin with! I'll figure something out.