Sweet Peas

Chloe had sweet peas for the first time tonight and she really liked them (I warmed them in the microwave). She ate the whole jar...it was amazing!

Green Beans...not so bad after all!

Chloe liked the green beans today. It turns out that all I needed to do was warm up the jar. Apparently, she is just super sensitive about the temperature. The other jars were not exactly cold though, they were just at room-temperature. I guess I can understand that though, I don't like to eat room-temperature food either. I like mine hot!

Green Beans...Yuck!

Chloe tried out some green beans tonight for dinner! As you can see from the photo, she was not a fan! She made many faces of disgust and even gagged a little. I felt so bad for putting this into her mouth, but I think I remember that it takes about ten times for babies to taste something before they actually start to like it.

Grandma's Sweet Potatoes

Chloe got to try out some of Grandma and Grandpa Loethen's sweet potatoes today. Luckily, Grandma and Grandpa grow lots of yummy vegetables that the girls (and us) get to eat in the summertime and we can't wait for Chloe to try them all. However, we were were all fortunate enough to eat some sweet potatoes from last season (Chloe included).

I had actually already fed Chloe some rice cereal today, but she just kept watching her daddy as he put food into his mouth. I thought she was pretty interested and maybe still a little hungry, so we all thought she might like to try them. We just mashed up a small amount of the sweet potatoes in a bowl for her. (Ideally, I probably would have mixed in some breastmilk to thin them out, but I had already used all that I brought in the cereal earlier.) She really liked them a lot and ate all that we gave her. Yay!

Rolling in Bed

Chloe spent some of the night rolling over in her bed onto her belly. I had to get up about 4 times to roll her back over onto her back. Sometimes when I would go in to check on her, she would have her arms out of her swaddle and be laying on her side. So cute!

Time to Stop Swaddling

Since Chloe is rolling over, I am going to have to try to break her from the swaddle. It is really scary for me to think about her rolling over onto her belly and not be able to get turned back over (or lift her head up) because her arms are swaddled in. I tried to break her of the swaddle (cold-turkey) a few weeks ago and it was horrible. She just cried and cried and cried every time I laid her in her crib. When I put the swaddle on her she fell right to sleep, she really needs and prefers to be swaddled.

So, I am going to transition her out of the swaddle gradually this time. Tonight I am going to wrap her a little more loosely and then she will be able to get her arms out if she wants to. Hopefully this will help encourage her to be less reliant on the swaddle for sleep!

Rolling Over...Back to Tummy

Today, while playing on her bedroom floor, Chloe finally rolled from her back to her tummy! It was a really slow process for her, so I was actually able to get my camera and video it! When she did finally get rolled over, she had a hard time getting her right arm out from underneath of herself. I let her try for a bit and then I helped her out! I was so proud of my little girl for meeting this milestone and was giving her much praise when she went and did something else! Can you guess what she did next...she rolled back over onto her back! So amazing!!! My little baby is getting big so fast!

Rice Cereal for Chloe

Well, since Chloe is five months old today, we figured we would let her try out some solid food. Dr. Herrbold said I could start with vegetables or rice cereal, if I wanted. He said rice cereal doesn't have a lot of nutritional value, but it would be okay if I wanted to do that first.

I did decide to do the rice cereal. I thought it would be an easier transition for Chloe since I mix it with breastmilk, and it turned out that Chloe really liked it. I was so surprised with how well she did eating it for her very first time.

I don't remember Paige eating so well on her first try. I just remember that she made a bad face and I have this image in my head of the cereal running down her chin. I guess I should go back and read about it on this blog!

Well, you can't really tell that Chloe liked it from her first bite, but she warmed up to it! :)

 Feeling the texture with her tongue...still warming up!

 Paigey wanted to help feed Chloe...Chloe was liking the cereal by this point!  (Apparently, Paige thought opening her mouth for each bite was good modeling for Chloe.  This is so cute because their Daddy does this too!)

 Paige is such a good big sister.  I love watching them together!

5 Months

 Guess who is five months old...it's this pretty baby!!