Eating Solids!

I desperatly tried, albeit unsucessfully, to load the video of Olivia eating solids for the very first time from a spoon. The video was over three minutes, and the blog will only allow about 1 min, 30 seconds. I will try again tonight to capture the adorableness on video.
In the meantime, here's the story: O turned four months on June 2. I was going to wait until then to start her on solids, since that's what all the baby books recommend. We tried it first in her bottle when she was 8 weeks, but it made her so constipated that we had to chase it with apple juice. Since she really didn't NEED it to aide in sleeping through the night, we just cut it out altogether. Sunday night (May 31st) we tried again, but this time with a spoon and not a bottle. All babycenter.com suggested was to start it at a time that you could be consistent with, so we chose night. Sunday night she ate 3 tsps of cereal (what she was getting the first go 'round in her bottle), but it was a little bit of a struggle. She knew exactly what the spoon was for, she simply wasn't sure what to do with the cereal once it got in there. After about 4 bites squirting right back out, she caught the hang of swallowing it. We have been going strong each night since. On Wednesday night we added about a tablespoon of peaches to the mix, and she devours it! I think we may try apricots tonight...

Ummm....yummy!