Taking Her First Bites...

So, despite the uneventful Halloween, It was however, the date of a big milestone! Elizabeth took her first bites of rice cereal on Friday, all dressed up in her (2nd) halloween costume. She seemed to like the rice cereal. I mixed it with breast milk. I didn't think it tasted too good, but, she liked it and kept wanting more!! I just gave her a few spoonfulls for now, beings I wasnt sure how she would react to it. Which, I am glad I didnt give her much more than what I did, because, she spit it all up about an hour later when she was playing with Daddy! I assume this is normal beings it was like putting foreign food into the little girls tummy! (And by the taste of it, I would have probably spit it up as well! ICK!). As I have mentioned before, I was pretty spoiled with Elizabeth sleeping through the night, but last week, wasn't so pleasant. Almost every night she woke in the middle of the night wanting to be fed. So, I thought with introducing cereal (and soon enough real food!) maybe she would sleep better through the night b/c her tummy would have a little more substance in it. Well, this didnt work either b/c she still woke in the middle of the night for a feeding. And Saturday night/Sunday morning she woke up TWICE in the middle of the night to be fed! This did a number on Mommy as I really didnt get any sleep over the weekend! We were pretty busy on Saturday, so she didnt get to try anymore rice cereal, but I tried again on Sunday. This time I gave her a mixed fruit flavored rice cereal. This tastes much better! Plus I mixed it with diluted apple juice. And speaking of apple juice, I decided I would let Elizabeth drink something other than "mommy's milk!", so I put some diluted apple juice in a sippy cup for her to see how she would take it! (She has never used a sippy cup before either, so this was an adventure as well!) She would taste it, give me a dirty look, and then go back to drinking it! She seemed to like this as well, despite the dirty looks! I'm not sure how much of it she drank, as her bib was soaking wet by the time she was finished, but, at least we're trying new things! Overall, feeding her the rice cereal went well this weekend! I will keep her on the rice cereal for a little bit, and then mix in some fruits & veggies with the cereal soon, so she can get a taste of those flavors as well. I am hoping that once she starts eating more "food" she is less demanding on the "milk" consumption. This weekend was hard!! Seemed like she ate every 2 hours on Sunday. I couldnt keep up with her. I wonder if she was going through a growth spurt this past week. She was due for one of those I suppose. Last night she slept right through the night! (AMEN!) But, she was OVER- READY to eat when she woke up and she let me hear about it! The girl has lungs! I am pretty sure her teeth are bothering her too. She was very fussy last night and it was hard to calm her down. So, because of this, I am very suprised that she slept through the night! She is also becoming attached to mommy, I think. Not that this is a bad thing, BUT last night, for about 4 hours straight, any time I left the room, she would just scream, and as soon as I would come back, she would calm down only to scream some more. And of course, I had a ton of things to do last night (laundry, dishes, other cleaning, supper,ect) that all had to be put on hold, so my little girl didnt have to freak out. I hate to say it, but once a parent is put in the position of letting a child cry, or tend to their needs, its so much easier to just let the child have their way!! (I HOPE I dont continue to do this!!) But, with knowing that Elizabeth is really usually a good baby, I feel that she was just in desperate need of some TLC when she gets in these moods. It really doesnt happen often that she needs the attention that she screamed for last night. Thank God! It was nice that I was able to get a good nights sleep last night as well! We'll see how long this keeps up! I am hoping it was just a phase or a growth spurt! Another week of sleepless nights could possibly send me straight to the loony bin!