Leila's teething pains are clearly causing her increasing levels of pain, and as a result, she's been increasingly difficult to nurse and also harder to keep asleep (woke up three times last night, instead of her usual, single 3am feeding). So, we decided to offer her some "solid" food. We first gave her a cold carrot to gnaw on. She actually did a remarkable job of sucking the juice from it, leaving the orange stick sadly limp.
We also fed her some spoonfuls of milky whole grain baby cereal. She was resistant on the first try last night, but today, she took charge of the spoon (the exact spoon I used when I was learning to gum down some big girl food). She succeeded at getting about half the food in her mouth and the other half all over her face, shirt, hands, my hands and my skirt. Not bad. And another major breakthrough in life with Leila Raine.
And here's a picture of Leila sitting in the backseat of our neighbor's stroller last week. She really seemed to enjoy strolling the streets of Athens with a new perspective. Riding shotgun is Konrad, who we've looked after for a couple mornings.
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