Magrilless

Milestone ahead! Maggie’s had her first solid food. Well, “solid” may be a bit of an exaggeration. Rice cereal made with liberal amounts of breast milk is hardly chewing food, but enough so to put on a spoon. We started with just a half teaspoon of cereal, and look — we don’t even need Maggie to make a mess of things!

First bites were pretty darned successful. I’m sure it doesn’t taste radically different from her regular meals. Just the spoon takes a bit of getting used to.

She didn’t need a bath afterwards, and neither did we! Success!

Now we’re having a teeny bowl of cereal every morning, and each day she improves her eye-tongue coordination. What a big girl! Next step: squash.

Yesterday was our first experience at church with Maggie. We decided Easter would be a good day to try it out since it was likely to be loud and busy and kid-friendly. And it was. And she did great. She ate her breakfast until the sermon, took a quick time-out backstage to pull herself together, then spent the rest of the service bobbing happily on the sidelines in her front carrier. She fell right asleep when the Bach cantata began and then woke up to eat in the Public Gardens while us parents got to people-watch. I wish she’d been awake and alert for the procession of the puppets at the beginning of the service and the Morris dancers at the end, but she did spectacularly well for a first time out. Of course everyone thought she was precious and adorable in her new Easter dress and bonnet. Of course.

She slept through a lot of fun things this week (which is soooo much better than screaming through them). On Friday she and I went to World’s End, a park-like area on the harbor with trails and carriage paths. She missed that one completely due to a nap. On Saturday we went to the Museum of Fine Arts for an early birthday present: a scavenger hunt/mystery in the museum. And we came in first place! Her participation consisted of eating through the first half and sleeping through the second.

I guess she had some to catch up on after a rough time on Thursday and Friday. We started giving her vitamin drops of A, C, and D. These upset her when she was really little, but she’s been great with the straight vitamin D. When the D bottle was all eaten up, we switched back to the tri-vitamins. Bad idea. There’s just something in there that doesn’t sit well with her. Back to D we go for a happy baby again.

A bright colorful cheerful meaningful holiday to all!

Maggie has started sitting up by herself! She can’t get there by herself, but once you put her in position, she’ll hang out, look around, grab at stuff nearby. Pretty darned exciting! Check out the video below.

Saturday was a particularly caperish day. It involved mussed up feeding schedules, frozen toes, pee all over Maggie’s Moses basket, a lapful of breastmilk, a sponge bath and change of pants, and a lost clip off the bottom of bicycle shoes. And that was all before lunch! We spent the rest of the day inside where it was safe and Maggie was still cute.