Cooper's First Food!

Cooper had is first taste of solids this weekend!  We were feeding Charlotte some avocado for dinner and I thought, what the heck, we'll see if Cooper still has his tongue thrust.  I gave him a bite and he didn't push it out with his tongue, but his face was priceless.

The next night we tried a little bit of baby oatmeal.  He sat in the high chair really well and was very curious about this new experience.  He wasn't sure what to do with the bib, but he opened up for the spoon!  Again his face says it all.

So we'll keep giving him cereal for a few days, watch for any allergies and then move on to the next food.  Not sure what we'll do next.

:: Runs off to fix Cooper.  He's stuck on his belly and can't roll back. ::

Charlotte is loving her new finger foods.  Her favorite is zwieback toast (love that name!).  I don' t know why it's called zwieback toast, but it looks like regular toast to us.  She also has two different flavors of puffs (banana and sweet potato), but she doesn't know how to get them in her mouth.  She puts them in her fist and can't get them out.  With as quick as she learns things I think it will be another week or so and then she'll figure it out.

We have also started giving her a bowl and spoon to hold/play with while she eats since she gets bored.  I also spoon a little bit of the baby food on her tray so she can play in it.  Every once in awhile she will lick her fingers.  (Chris won't do that because he hates when she gets messy.)  We've been introducing the sippy cup too.  She doesn't know what to do with it yet, but she'll get there.

::  Runs off to fix Cooper again.  ::

We keep the tv off during the day and don't watch it until the kids go to bed.  Cooper in particular will turn toward any screen that is on.  He loves Chris' video game because of the colors.  Looks like Chris is starting him early.

::  Cooper is stuck again.  ::

We've found that the kids like to have all their toys in a bucket so they can dump them out and empty the bucket.  Cooper just sticks his whole head in the bucket.

My new favorite thing we do on the weekends is our family evening walks.  Charlotte gets particularly grumpy about an hour before bed.  She loves the outdoors so we take a walk around the neighborhood.  Scout visits with her friends Ace and Scarlet and then we wander around the harbor neighborhood daydreaming about what kind of house we'll own when we move back.  I love spending time talking to each other like this.

Did anyone go to the Democratic National Convention?  We were excited to watch it on tv...looked like a lot of fun.  We wish we could have gone to both the DNC and RNC.  Just seems like a great atmosphere.  Very exciting time in politics right now!

::  Fixing Cooper again.  ::

We've been trying some of the crockpot recipes from the Crockpot Blog.  So far we've had the Brown Sugar Chicken and Orange Chipotle Ribs.  The chicken was so, so.  I think our crockpot is too big to cook so little chicken because it seemed to over-cook it and lacked flavor.  Maybe we're just too picky since Chris makes awesome Orange Molasses Pork Chops (or Chicken).  The ribs were delicious!  We didn't have chipotle chili powder, so we used regular chili powder and it turned out fine.  Next we plan to try 3 Packet Pot Roast, Layered Steak and Potatoes Dinner, French Toast, and Jamaican Salmon.  We'll let you know how they taste.

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