Girls
Cordelia has added several things to her list of foods. She has now had beef stroganof (her Grandma's recipe), peas, butternut squash, pizza crust. The beef I gave her in little tiny pieces. Valerie wants to feed Cordelia as well, but when I told her to find a small piece, the piece she picked out was 4X larger than what I had showed her. Today as I was finishing up some things for dinner, Valerie asked to give Cordelia something to eat. I told her no (she had to wait until I was sitting at the table), but she gave Cordelia a piece of cinnamon chip that was on the table. Cordelia had a bit of trouble with that so we had to have a stern talk to Valerie about how she could hurt her sister doing that.
I think Valerie enjoys having a living doll to take care of. We have to keep reminding her to not be too rough with Cordelia. I think she just gets excited.
Here is the list of foods I had posted in FB on June 4:
We have ended up doing baby led weaning with Cordelia as she loves feeding herself. That way I don't have to fight her for control of the spoon.
Things Cordelia will eat (shoves in her mouth enthusiastically, how much is swallowed varies by how easy it is to get into small enough pieces) in no particular order:
Cheerios
Banana
peaches (canned)
grapes
mango
graham crackers
rusks (US version, very different than UK version)
chicken (this is an example of something that doesn't get swallowed often)
sweet potato puree mixed with rice cereal and formula
cucumber (I don't think she was able to get pieces off to swallow)
cookies
broccoli
mud.
Yesterday when she got home from school, Valerie asked to watch Mama Mia. I humored her. She said she had the song in her head and kept singing "Mama Mia! Mama Mia! Here we go again!" Very cute. Today she asked to watch it again later in the evening, but she had already had enough TV so I told her no. I'm not sure what to think of her desire to watch that.
We really need to do something to teach Valerie patience. She's getting better about not having a tantrum when we tell her she will have to wait, but she is still annoying in that she keeps asking when we will be finished. She will now ask questions like "When you are finished with what you're doing, can you...?"
I think I saw some proper crawling this evening. I walked into the room as I saw her move a knee and the opposite hand forward. She definitely makes progress and we have to be very careful what is on the floor in the living room. She can make her way close to the kitchen, so areas that have been somewhat cluttered with Valerie's stuff (mostly paper based) will need to be cleared. We do have a baby gate, but I'm not ready to resort to that yet.
I think Valerie enjoys having a living doll to take care of. We have to keep reminding her to not be too rough with Cordelia. I think she just gets excited.
Here is the list of foods I had posted in FB on June 4:
We have ended up doing baby led weaning with Cordelia as she loves feeding herself. That way I don't have to fight her for control of the spoon.
Things Cordelia will eat (shoves in her mouth enthusiastically, how much is swallowed varies by how easy it is to get into small enough pieces) in no particular order:
Cheerios
Banana
peaches (canned)
grapes
mango
graham crackers
rusks (US version, very different than UK version)
chicken (this is an example of something that doesn't get swallowed often)
sweet potato puree mixed with rice cereal and formula
cucumber (I don't think she was able to get pieces off to swallow)
cookies
broccoli
mud.
Yesterday when she got home from school, Valerie asked to watch Mama Mia. I humored her. She said she had the song in her head and kept singing "Mama Mia! Mama Mia! Here we go again!" Very cute. Today she asked to watch it again later in the evening, but she had already had enough TV so I told her no. I'm not sure what to think of her desire to watch that.
We really need to do something to teach Valerie patience. She's getting better about not having a tantrum when we tell her she will have to wait, but she is still annoying in that she keeps asking when we will be finished. She will now ask questions like "When you are finished with what you're doing, can you...?"
I think I saw some proper crawling this evening. I walked into the room as I saw her move a knee and the opposite hand forward. She definitely makes progress and we have to be very careful what is on the floor in the living room. She can make her way close to the kitchen, so areas that have been somewhat cluttered with Valerie's stuff (mostly paper based) will need to be cleared. We do have a baby gate, but I'm not ready to resort to that yet.