New Year, New Food, Schedule, Playroom...

Wow, it's been a long time since I last posted, but we have been busy with big changes since the new year! We started with solid food (rice cereal) on the 1st and have been working our way up to twice a day and this week started on vegetables, too (Sweet potatoes and squash - poor babies!) As big as it seems that the babies have gotten, they look pretty tiny in their highchairs!

Knox took pretty quickly to solid food and now he's eating like a champ. It's messy, but he quickly grasped swallowing his food and he seems to like it all.

But poor Piper didn't take very well to the plain rice cereal. She was really excited and opened her mouth up wide for the first bite, with a big smile on her face. Then as soon as the cereal touched her lip, she made the most hysterical face. We tried to capture it with the camera but she was too quick! But let's just say it wasn't a happy face! Here is a few bites later. Since she seemed to hate the plain cereal so much, I found a rice cereal with apple to try. I'm not sure if she's just used to the texture now or if it's really that much better, but the apple cereal seems much more appealing to both of them. Although Piper still has a quite a way to go to master the technique for eating solid food! She has mastered rolling over, though, and now turns over and sleeps quite comfortably on her tummy every night. And she's almost sitting up. Or rather, she sits up but can't quite keep herself in that position and pretty quickly slumps to the side or the front!

I'll save the pics of the new "playroom" for the next post!