Happy March the 15th!

March 1 - 14

March 2nd - we found out (not that I believe in these things) that Chickie is a Leo Leo rising. Oh, and moon in Aries.
March 3rd - LOVE the hat that my Aunt Mary Lou made. We get so many compliments on it!

March 3rd - she love to be around other kids now, especially if they are a little older than she.
Look at the puff on her arms! she has lost some clothes here because of an incident with a sippy cup - she encountered one filled with apple juice for the first time and kind of loved it.
March 4th
March 5th - the social butterfly. check out the retro overalls.
March 6th - she loves the guitar. sometimes she gets to pluck the strings now and when Csaba plays sometimes she moves her hand with a little airguitar.

March 11th - visiting Gabi and Samu. She took over Samu's chair and ate lots of spaghetti. Well mostly flung it around, eh hem.


March 11th - she screams like a teenager at a rock concert when she sees the dog. And maybe, just maybe, she says dog (da!) too. The dog is curious but nervous about the baby, probably because I give her dirty looks if she looks at her. A window between them made us all happy.
March 12th - squatting too. up and down up and down
March 12 - trying to get the hang of the new wrap on my back.
March 12 - she thinks it's so funny to do things with the doll like brush its hair, put slippers on...
kisses!
March 13th

March 14 - first trip to the zoo! she was fascinated by the animals, but in a more serious than smiley way.
Love this kid!!!

February 2010

February 8th

February 11th - yeah, we like to go to cafés!
Since she has learned to sit up it's so much easier to take her places.
February 12th

February 15th. for the record, the first time she ever stood up was on the 14th of February.
February 19th -- getting better and better at standing up! This is still what she wants to do ALL the time.

February 20th
February 20th - first time in a swing! Weeeeee!
February 21st - she loves her doll Gizi!

This picture is to prove that I can take pictures of things other than my daughter.

Cute enough to get Nagymama onto the floor to play!



February 25th - I bought a new wrap - Didymos Indio wool/cotton. She's not wrapped very well here, but at least you can see the pattern.
Take me hiking!!! For some reason she's crazy about the laces on my boots. Too bad I can't just let her play with the dirty boots, would be hours of entertainment!
February 27th - Chickie was sick for the first time, and we had to use the vacuum cleaner nose sucker and ever since she's been afraid of the vacuum cleaner. What you see below is one solution.
February 27th

BLW - she eats!

Just moments before the big first try of solid food!! She was excited, we were excited.
It was fun, and all three of us loved the sweet potato fries (bakes?).

I find that I have so so many pictures of Chickee eating - probably because she is so mobile now that it is hard to take pictures of her otherwise! At least this way she's tied down and too distracted to worry about trying to swipe the camera off me! She is getting better and better about getting things down her throat, though to be honest it's still not very much. Here are some highlights of the last month of so:
She loves to take my spoon away from me. I've tried to direct it toward putting things in her mouth, but she mostly just likes to chew on it and wipe things into her hair. I have bought her her own spoons, but she likes the big one better. She will eat from a spoon, with me holding it and her direction.

Kiwi was a big hit from early on, but isn't as exciting lately as it used to be. For the record, the dried seeds in hair look disturbingly like ticks.
It is harder and harder to keep anything away from her. Makes us realize how much junk gets eaten around here when we aren't able to share with her.

Broccoli!!!!
Chicken is a big favorite too. She is getting better and better about working it around in her mouth.

Tried some baby food just in case she really liked it. This was blueberry apple or something like that. I ate about half of it. I wanted to see if she would get the hang of licking it off her fingers, but I suppose she would need more practice. Unfortunately I don't like cleaning enough to give her this practice often.


She also likes to chew away on a whole apple. She can get a surprising amount out with just her gums. It also seems to have helped her two teeth come out! On the 14th after 20 minutes of working away at an apple one tooth was through!

The next are a series of kiwi eating. I love her expressions!! So, I had to put them all in:




Notice the banana on her chin here: Banana is tasty, but so much of it ends up on my clothes somehow. I've read that it helps to teach them to eat it while it's halfway unpeeled, but she just doesn't give up on trying to eat the peel and I worry about chemicals on it.

That is grated apple by the way, which goes down pretty well.
Avocado. She doesn't like it as much as I do, but she accepts it. I eat most of it. I justify the overeating of avocado by thinking about how much good nutrition is going into the breast milk. Right.

I made burritos that I could share with her by just pureeing kidney beans with baby spinach. The spinach mixed right in. With mashed avocado it was pretty good! I gave it to her on a tortilla which she used as a utensil for eating the insides. It quickly went over the side.
There was, um, evidence that a lot of this meal went down.

So, enough eating pictures to last you awhile? I will probably get more tired of this soon, and not take as many photos. Or, and this is my hope, she will get better and better at just eating with us and then I will be too busy eating my own food. One can dream.