Reese: 1st Food

At 5.5 months, we decided to give Reese her first taste of "real" food - rice cereal.

Here is a series of photos from her first tasting.  

See if you can guess if she liked it or not.  :-)

Now, see if you were right... ;-)

(Click here: "Reese's 1st Food" video)


She gags if I try to feed her...if Mike tries to feed her...if her daycare teachers try to feed her.

You know when she doesn't cry/gag?!?

You got it - when Colden feeds her!

(Love!!!)

(But she still doesn't like it.  She just smiles at him and then spits it back out)

Reese: 5 Months Old

(3 days)

 (1 month)

(2 months)

 (3 months)

(4 months)

(5 months)

Reese no longer has to be propped up all of the time

She is starting to be able to support herself.  She likes to sit on the floor and simply observe
(I use the term "sit" loosely - more like lean):

...or sit in her Bumbo and play with toys...

...until the toys fall on the ground, that is.  Then it's fun to search for the fallen toys...

She's now able to stand for a minute or two while holding onto something

And she has fun hanging in her jumper (she has yet to use the jumper for actual jumping)

Now that she is able to do more, we are starting to have fun doing things together as a family...

The kids can play with toys together:

(anyone need a doctor?!?)


Take baths together:

Get dry together:

(our little ladybug and frog)


The family can go on runs together:

And eat meals together at the table:

Of course, she's not eating solids yet - so right now, she's just enjoying gnawing on her highchair:

I will end with a few favorite photos taken of Reese this past month: