Big Brother Peyton is Hilarious!

I took this video a couple of weeks ago.  Peyton was just being silly and Elliana thought it was hilarious.  I love her belly laugh!  I was afraid that by the time I got out the video camera, she would stop laughing.  But it turned out that as long as her big brother kept up his antics, she was highly amused!

5 Months!

Well, it's actually like 5.5 months because I forgot to take her picture at 5 months.  Oops. I should have known better than to commit myself to having to take a picture on a particular day for 12 months.  

And we've started trying out some solid foods.  Trying being the emphasized word here.  Elliana isn't really all that interested.  She usually just smiles and keeps her lips together when I bring the spoon close to her mouth.  (She's game to put anything else non-food related in her mouth though.) We've only tried rice cereal and sweet potatoes so far.  And usually she ends up wearing more than she ingests.  Her daycare lady, Tahira, offered to try giving her some solids during the day.  Sure, why not?  I sent over a half of a cube of sweet potatoes, figuring she would have about as much luck as I do.  However, when I pieked her up today, Tahira told me she ate all of it. 
Really?  How'd you get her to eat it? 
Well, you have to sing to her. 
Ohhhhh....is that it? 
Yes, she sings back and opens her mouth and that's when you put the food in. 
Got it. She clearly has way more experience at this than I do.  We'll give it a try.

 

Sweet baby Elliana with a face full of sweet potatoes