25 Weeks Old

Lots of excitement this week! We gave Nora her first food! First she got to try chicken (seriously, who has chicken as their first food?!?) - she grabbed a piece of chicken off my Mom's plate and just sucked and sucked and sucked on it until it started to shred. At that point I took it away from her; then a couple nights later I let her do the same thing at home. She really loved it. That's her "eating" the chicken in the first picture. Then last night, we gave her avocado in a mesh feeder which she absolutely devoured! She couldn't get enough. Haven't given her anything today - I'd like to see how her tummy handles the avocado first. She has been very fussy this evening which I don't know whether to attribute to the new food or teething so I'm glad I didn't give her anything else today. We'll just stick to the avocado for awhile. I got some baby oatmeal at the store and maybe we can try that next week although I've read a lot about the baby led weaning technique in which you basically skip cereals and purees and go straight for soft, mushy foods they can feed themselves (like avocado). I like that idea a lot but at the same time she is so eager to try foods that it might be hard not to give her purees. We'll just play it by ear and see how it goes. She's drinking out of an open cup extremely well...although NOT coffee even though she's trying to in the picture above! She tries to drink out of any cup that's near her and I couldn't resist taking a picture of her trying desperately to get to my coffee.
She is sitting up so well on her own. She still tumbles over every now and then but not very frequently and can stay seated for quite a long time. I put a bin of toys in front of her and she likes to pull them out one at a time, look at them, then toss them aside. Still no rolling over. I keep practicing with her but she hasn't done it on her own yet. She's quite content to stay on her belly for a long time so she doesn't have a lot of motivation to get onto her back. On the other hand, when she's on her back she will turn to her side to try and reach things on the floor...so maybe she'll go from  back to front before front to back. I love this picture of the two of them - Henry, big brother, so serious with his hands on little sister's shoulders as she smiles gleefully.

 For some reason I'm having a hard time uploading videos again. Hopefully I will be able to figure out why and remedy the problem. So in the meantime, here she is in her Easter dress in her exersaucer...