First Cart Ride

Here's Rowan sitting in a grocery cart for the first time.  She liked it a lot.  She got to see everything, look at all the people that stopped by to say hello.  Guess we'll be doing that from now on.

Happy Grandmother's Day!

Wait, Mother's Day is TODAY?!?!

 

Oh, no, I didn't get anything for my grandmothers.  Just being my charming self is enough 

of a present for mommy, but my grandmommies like to spoil me!  I need to encourage that!

 

Okay, don't panic.  Mommy gave me this paper to hold and is pointing the flashy box at me, 

so maybe this is something for them.

 

I'll just see what this says...hmm.  Nothing.  Interesting.

 

Maybe it's drool-activated.  I'll just chew on the top here...still nothing.

 

Well, maybe it's -- oh!  "Happy Grandmother's Day, Love Rowan!"

 

Nailed it.

Exersaucer Fun Time!

One of Rowan's new favorite things to play with are toys where she can activate music, and her exersaucer has a station that has large buttons with pictures of animals on them, and if you hit it you can cycle through to the sound the animal makes, its name in English, Spanish, and then a song.  Rowan can only really hit the center duck hard enough to cycle through, and she usually hits it until the song comes on and then stops to listen.   Which is what she's doing here!  She gets really excited about it.

Rowan Eats an Apple Slice

Here's a video of Rowan eating an apple slice.  We've gone from feeding her mashed-up food to letting her try and eat normal food.  It's a technique called baby-led weaning (wean in this instance means complementing their milk diet, not weaning themselves off milk) and it's basically just giving babies food in appropriate shapes and letting them try it.   She's already gotten much better at grabbing food and getting it to her mouth in the four days she's been doing it.  And the goal here isn't really for her to eat a lot of this food we're giving her as much as it is to teach her how to chew and eat by herself without us having to feed her.

So, today we did apples.  First I gave her an apple I cooked in the microwave for two minutes so it was soft enough to mush up but still hard enough to hold on to.  Two pieces got some cinnamon on them.  She liked the cinnamon and licked it off, but once she got a piece of apple that was plain, she really didn't like the taste.  But she loves uncooked apples, so that's what she got.  Anyway, this is literally just two minutes of her eating, but you can see her pick up a slice and put it to her mouth near the end.  Pretty good for a 6.75-month-old!

Hanging Out on the Floor

Here's another video of Rowan just hanging out.  This time she's in her room, and it's hot and the fan's on, so she's looking up at it.  She's doing her usual roll to her side but not all the way over.  And toward the end of the video, you can see her roll to grab the blanket and then roll back.  She really likes doing that and will sometimes do it on both sides so she's partially wrapped up.