Sometimes when I look at the title of my posts I realize just how boring my life must seem to anyone reading this ;-) Oh well, we enjoy our craziness and all the small milestones.
Anyway, so my mom was in town for about a week and was a huge help watching the kids so I could have a break and get a little extra coaching in while Chris was out of town. While she was watching Rylan there was a lot of practice with crawling. Chris has also been doing this when I coach in the evenings. And lately you can tell that Rylan really wants to figure this out and be on the move like her brothers. She has been able to get up on all fours by herself, but then she's just sort of stuck. She rocks back and forth and then eventually face plants in an attempt to move forward. Its kind of funny to watch until she starts crying, but even then its a little funny;) I know you all must think I'm a terrible mom for saying such a thing, but really its part of the learning process - you fall, pick yourself up, and then try to find the bright side and you can hopefully laugh about it one day. So back to the crawling part, on Sunday she was really trying to figure it out and Chris was down on the living room floor trying to help her out. And what ya know? She did figure it out. She crawled! Hands and legs moving together for a few shuffles. I was of course in the kitchen, but when I came over to see she did it again! She was only able to go a foot or two until she eventually face planted. And she then proceeded to use her head to move - see, the laughing helped - she realized she wasn't hurt and could use her head with her legs to move around as well. Jake also used the head and leg method for quite awhile before mastering the legs and arms together. Rylan spent about an hour Monday morning trying it some more. It'll still probably be another few weeks at least before she's quickly moving about, but she's definitely figured it out and is ready to practice so she can scramble around like a mad woman with her brothers.
In my last post I had mentioned that I tried some cereal with Rylan. Well, this week we've been trying a few more things. So far she has tried apples, pears, oatmeal, rice cereal, sweet potatoes, avocado, carrots, and cauliflower. She's doing pretty good, I'm trying to feed her twice a day, at lunch and dinner. It's been interesting to see what she likes and doesn't like, so far she has liked everything except the avocado. And the things she likes best she's actually trying to grab the spoon and feed herself.
I'm trying this time around to make some of my own baby food. My sister-in-law was kind enough to lend me her Beaba. The machine makes it so easy to do, it steams and purees the food. I always felt like with the boys there wasn't a lot of variety in the ready made foods so being able to make some of my own food I will hopefully be able to have more variety. And I'm hoping Rylan won't be as picky when she gets a bit older - fingers crossed! On Monday I made apples, pears, carrot/cauliflower mix, broccoli/potato mix, and carrots. I was able to freeze about half of it and the rest we've been trying out this week. She seems to like it just as much, if not more, than the ready made jars. Its definitely nice to be trying some new things and I really enjoyed making it.
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