First Solids

Look out! The smallest Marasco has had her first taste of food! It won't be long before we're ordering 3 kid meals when we go out. We're in trouble, because if you know any Marasco, you know that most of us have eating habits like that of a T-Rex. I'm preparing myself for a crew that eats me out of house & home (what a weird expression).

With the emergence of Tula's first teeth, signaling that she has proper stomach enzymes to break down solid food, I've decided to offer her some diluted mashed up banana. I'm confident that waiting almost 7 months to introduce food was the right thing to do for her. She's moving the food around in her mouth and opening when she sees the spoon coming her way.

Next we'll try some home made sweet potatoes, maybe some pumpkin and definitely some seasonal squash. Uh-oh, I hope she doesn't turn orange! Oh the fun (and work) starts here!

6 months old

6 months have flown by.

Today marks the half-birthday of one very special young lady. Our caboose is 6 months old today.

Here are some fun facts about her.

She is sitting unassisted. She rolls over from front to back, but did this at least a dozen times before I witnessed it. I would find her in the "stranded beetle" position when she would wake up (she's a tummy sleeper). She is saying "aaa mamamama ahhh" and of course to me this is MAMA! So sweet. She is staying up for longer intervals of time and takes 3 nice naps per day. She is on a very consistent sleep routine, goes to bed at 8, wakes up right about 8. She squeals when she sees her siblings, and laughs the heartiest laugh when I snort in her neck!

She continues to be 100% breastfed. I'll be anxious to see her accurate weight and length at her first doctor's visit in a couple of days. It's so satisfying to look at this long, growing baby knowing that all of this growth came from straight from me! Her chubby thighs are being replaced by length, the other day I noticed hardly a roll on her and when I was nursing her, her legs were hanging off my lap.

We have not started solids yet. We'll be waiting until some teeth emerge, ensuring she has adequate digestive enzymes to break down solid food. I'm truthfully in no hurry for her to be eating. That requires me bringing up the high chair, making some baby food, the mess, the nasty solid poop - yuk. I'm too lazy to deal with it right now. She's growing like a weed and although she is showing signs of food readiness, I'm happy to give her more time without food to ward off allergies later.

Oh! The other thing she's doing is grabbing for everything. We were at Panera yesterday and she was trying to sneak my cookie away! I have no idea where she gets that from. I hate cookies! ;)

That's about it for a 6 month check in. She has had the pleasure of not a single runny nose, no coughs, no colds, no sneezes, no ear infections, no nothin! She's on her way to becoming another boring Marasco kid.