Solid Foods

I haven't been blogging, and I haven't been recording any of Clyde's special moments. I just decided I'm going to go home and add some new details to her baby book that Grandma Lynn got for us.

In the last two weeks, she's started solids. The doctor said you have to pick one food and stay with just that for at least three days, to eliminate the possibility of any allergies. We haven't been quite that regimented. I know the doctor is being on the stringent side, to avoid any possible malpractice suits. Thus far, Clyde has tried rice cereal, oatmeal, bananas, sweet potato, and peas. We've just taken the regular food and ground it up either in a coffee grinder or a little Cuisinart and it has been working fine. It's hard to get the peas mushy enough, because they have shells. But she's such a good eater. She loves everything, and screeches while eating, because we can't get the food in her mouth fast enough.

Meanwhile, we aren't sure if she is teething or not. She has this really loud, really annoying scream, and it usually comes when she's either hungry or tired or doesn't like her position on the floor, OR when we leave her alone and walk away from her. Are we developing a superneedy child?? Over Thanksgiving, she met some new people--friends of Ing's parents--and she was really screechy with them all weekend. I was embarrassed. Like, here's our new baby, and she screams all weekend. She's been much better since we got home though.