Happy Half Birthday!

Today is Laurel's half birthday! It is unbelievable to me how much she has changed in the past six months. She is sitting up now and grabbing everything in sight. She is growing and learning new things each day!

We are still breastfeeding, and it is going great. Not with a little reluctance, I agreed with Tim to start slowly introducing solid food this week. With suggestions and articles from http://www.kellymom.com/, we decided to start with banana mixed with breastmilk, hoping it might be an easier transition since it would be sweet, like the milk she was used to.

This is the face we saw both Sunday and Monday when we attempted it. She seemed pretty confused by the whole eating thing. She would open her mouth for the spoon, but then when the food touched her tongue, she would spit it all out. I think she did swallow a little, but not much. We will give bananas one more try tonight and then probably move on to avocado in a few days.