Granted, I can't even take a selfie with Gianna in the bathroom mirror. Remember we tried that 2 weeks ago? LOL. So I'll be even worse off.
See???!
3. Gianna drinks from a cup! She's so stinkin' cool. I had been using a plastic cup with a tiny amount of water and that worked but she was only having like 25% success. With the shot glass, she's super accurate and I can fill it almost all the way. The catch is that I have to hand it to her first because 9 out of 10 times she will lift the glass from the top and fling water everywhere. We will get there though. I attribute our cup success from my mom sneaking her water from 3 months of age, and Gianna's unwillingness to let us really feed her very much at all.
2. Randomness on my mind: I've read and been told to just give babies plain fruits and veggies to eat. The thing is, fruit by itself tastes awesome. Veggies by themselves....not so much. I mean. I like a carrot as much as the next person, but sauteed in butter with garlic/himalayan salt/pepper is literally 20 times as delicious. What normal person just eats plain peas without any seasoning? NO ONE IN THEIR RIGHT MIND. Want your kids to hate vegetables? Don't season their veggies. Gianna loves garlic and paprika.
3. Gianna drinks from a cup! She's so stinkin' cool. I had been using a plastic cup with a tiny amount of water and that worked but she was only having like 25% success. With the shot glass, she's super accurate and I can fill it almost all the way. The catch is that I have to hand it to her first because 9 out of 10 times she will lift the glass from the top and fling water everywhere. We will get there though. I attribute our cup success from my mom sneaking her water from 3 months of age, and Gianna's unwillingness to let us really feed her very much at all.
4. This week she's
figured out how to engineer a way to each bite sized pieces even though
she doesn't have a pincer grip just yet. She gets the food in her fist
and squeezes it up towards her thumb and pointer and eats it when it
pops out. Color me impressed. She starting doing this consistently on
Thursday when she ate 10-15 avocado pieces like that. And avocados are
slippery!
5. I'm learning more and more that Gianna (and in general, babies/toddlers/kids) can probably do a lot more than I think she can. If someone would have told me that their 8 month old could feed herself and drink on her own, I would have been incredulous back in January because I am (we are) accustomed to things happening in a certain order or going through particular stages. It's funny that although I have questioned so much about my life, regarding faith, food, all things household, birth methods, etc that I never looked at the human aspect of questioning.
Why does a baby need to drink from a sippy cup before a regular cup?
Why should a baby eat only mush at first?
Why do you have to learn addition two years before multiplication?
Moee and more I'm learning to question everything, especially the status quo, or whatever is "normal", or "age appropriate". I know in most there is logic and truth, but there's not just one right way for each individual. I guess that's really the bottom line. Our society/world has put so much into groupthink and making norms that we've forgotten the uniqueness of each of us that pervades our brains, hearts, and souls.
6. Repainted baby rocking chair! Gianna likes to "try" to rock while sitting in it, but really enjoys just standing and rocking the chair when it's empty.
7. We went to the Farmer's Market this week for the first time in a few weeks and really, really stocked up . Chris had come early from work, so we were able to tag team at the market and hang out, chat, and sit by the fountain in downtown Tyler. It's always nice to tag team because I buy Chris a huge watermelon that weighs approximately as much as Gianna. A girl only has so many arms for produce bags and two 20 lb loads...
Eating small avocado bits. In the video, I thought she spit out the piece but that was from earlier. That bib hides food!
Gianna also had Soba noodles (buckwheat....high in protein, very little to no wheat, depending on brand) for the first time and that was hilarious. In this video, she's kind of gotten the hang of it, but to watch her at the beginning trying to get a hanging noodle in her mouth was, to say the least, hysterical.
5. I'm learning more and more that Gianna (and in general, babies/toddlers/kids) can probably do a lot more than I think she can. If someone would have told me that their 8 month old could feed herself and drink on her own, I would have been incredulous back in January because I am (we are) accustomed to things happening in a certain order or going through particular stages. It's funny that although I have questioned so much about my life, regarding faith, food, all things household, birth methods, etc that I never looked at the human aspect of questioning.
Why does a baby need to drink from a sippy cup before a regular cup?
Why should a baby eat only mush at first?
Why do you have to learn addition two years before multiplication?
Moee and more I'm learning to question everything, especially the status quo, or whatever is "normal", or "age appropriate". I know in most there is logic and truth, but there's not just one right way for each individual. I guess that's really the bottom line. Our society/world has put so much into groupthink and making norms that we've forgotten the uniqueness of each of us that pervades our brains, hearts, and souls.
6. Repainted baby rocking chair! Gianna likes to "try" to rock while sitting in it, but really enjoys just standing and rocking the chair when it's empty.
7. We went to the Farmer's Market this week for the first time in a few weeks and really, really stocked up . Chris had come early from work, so we were able to tag team at the market and hang out, chat, and sit by the fountain in downtown Tyler. It's always nice to tag team because I buy Chris a huge watermelon that weighs approximately as much as Gianna. A girl only has so many arms for produce bags and two 20 lb loads...
Apparently Gianna was pretty worn out by our trek, also. She's barely awake in this picture. I love that little grumpy looking face!!!!!
8. Still working on our piano skills....
Yeah see? This was her on the way home. I was desperately pleading with Chris to keep her awake because I didn't want to spoil bedtime!
8. Still working on our piano skills....
