dirty carrots

In case you haven't had the pleasure of dining with Cece, I'll start by saying normally she's an excellent eater and will try most things. Tonight, however, was not one of those nights. I made a pot roast in the the crock pot w/potatoes, carrots, onions- the works.  Carrots are her fave, so I gave her just about all of them.  Extra delicious carrots that have been cooking with the roast since about 9am. We all sit down to eat and she's not having ANY of it.  No carrots, No meat, NO MUMMA!!!

After we'd eaten, I had a thought. It took me by surprise- thoughts are hard to come by these days.

"Cece!" I said, "Can you eat a carrot with your eyes CLOSED?! I bet you can't"
What child can resist such a challenge. I know you're wishing for pictures right now, but I couldn't risk the distraction. (very unlike me, but my phone was charging across the room).

Tonight we learned Cece can in fact eat carrots with her eyes closed, and meat, AND a zucchini. (Well, she peeked at the zucchini.) The onion was a no-go, but she gave it a shot.  There was lots of applauding at all these eyes-closed eating skills. This system all worked pretty well until I tried to get her to eat another carrot, with her eyes open.

"No mumma. yuck. dirty."

Oh well, more dirty carrots for the rest of us.

cece in action

this is how we eat now:



i guess cece was tired of the rain too!




love!

food fail!

our FIRST food fail!


Cecelia has been pretty open to the foods we've offered her. some she's more enthusiastic about than others. usually she'll try them and if she doesn't like them she usually ignores them. well, we found one that was offensive enough to warrant spitting out and quite a bit of fussing & crying.

the winner is: Kiwi!

hmm.. what's this?

wah! why did you give me this terrible thing? are you trying to poison me?

It's going to take a lot of cheerios for me to forgive this!

eating!

Cecelia is getting pretty darn good at eating. check it out:


i lovingly call this one "pancake smash" :)

here's lookin at you kid!

 

Cecelia is 7 months old! holy moly! 

we got wii fit plus, which has a 'baby stats' feature (meaning one of us gets weighed, then we get weighed again holding the baby) so according to that last week she was 22 1/4 pounds!  she isn't much into rolling these days, she prefers to be sitting. she loves to stand (with help) and is trying to pull herself up. will she skip crawling? only time will tell!

she's getting awesome at eating, and has gone from just sucking on stuff, to actually eating it! and it seems like her pincher grasp is starting to show itself, so perhaps we will try some cheerios soon.

here she is nomming a muffin the other day. funny girl!

she still blows raspberries all the time and screeches like a crazy bird (in the cutest way possible) i love that, and will miss it a lot when she learns actual words, so i'm in no rush for that to happen.

and now for something completely different

some intake! Cecelia is still dabbling in solids, we try to offer some at every meal we have. I've started making smoothies for breakfast, or a snack because those are easy to share. I give her a spoon and try to "help" her a little with as spoon of my own. It usually just ends up with her having two spoons :)

 

blueberry smoothie, a hit for sure.

 

she's getting pretty good with the spoon! you know for a baby. :)

 

food is fun!