Solid Meal

Dear Sawyer,

After six months of a breastmilk-only diet, you finally had something different today and tried your very first bite of rice cereal. And you didn't like it! You made a "Ew, what is this?!" face when that first spoonful went into your mouth but then you gradually warmed up to it and finished the whole bowl. Hello solids!

You're definitely going to need more food now because you are growing so much and becoming more active with each passing day. You currently wear 9 months-sized clothing and are always moving something, whether you are banging your hand on your high chair tray, scratching the couch cushions (I think you really like the sound that makes), scratching your own head, waving your arm and smacking me in the face while you're nursing (yeah, could you stop that?) or jumping up and down really, really excitedly in your jumper. And you are so strong that when you are sitting in your floor chair, you push off with your legs and can move several feet across the floor all on your own (the first time, I wasn't in the room and yelled at GuhGaw for pushing you in your seat and he said you'd moved by yourself--and then I saw it for myself!). Goodbye days where you always stay where I leave you!

Love,
Mom