Bethany's First Bite

On Saturday, Bethany had her first bite of baby food! She'd been ogling us while we ate for about a month now, leaning forward in her swing and looking at us intently with those wide, blue eyes of hers. So, after we got the OK from her Dr. this last week, we decided to let her give some carrots a try.
Her reaction was much as we expected it to be--a whole lot of hilarious "yucky" expressions (which she's so good at giving us when we feed her anything but breast milk), and spitting most of it out. HOWEVER, when we fed her some carrots last night (on day 3), she ate them like a total champ, and swallowed most of what we gave her! We sure do love and our proud of our big baby!

This was Bethany's expression when Travis first offered her the carrots, like "Mom, what is Dad doing?!"

Oh, how I love those big blue eyes!

Num num num!

She gives Travis the CHEESIEST gummy grins when he even just looks or smiles at her during dinner. Love it!

She sure does love her dad :)

It's amazing (and a little scary) how quickly she's inching towards being a toddler. On Sunday, she rolled over from her tummy to her back a couple of times, and the combo of that and her eating baby food--and thus not seeming like my baby any more--made me honestly want to cry (and yet at the same time want to praise her for her accomplishments from the rooftops). It's so funny to me how it can surprise me at how little she still is sometimes, and how she can seem so young to me at the same time too. Thankfully, she's my little snuggle bug and prefers a good "bouncing" to sleep, so she's still my baby for now. :)

Up next for her palate tasting pleasure...peas.
P.S. I got a great video of her first "feeding," but am having a hard time updating it; hopefully, I'll be able to post it soon.