Eating . . . and Eating

We have entered the land of all foods solid. This is a whole new world as far as meals in our house. We cannot eat . . . ever without Ella wanting to eat what we have or at least something. We started with very small pieces of soft bread which Ella LOVES, then Cheerios, then soft vegetables. Turns out Ella loves to chew anything :-). And last night, only 1 week after starting these tiny food pieces - she fed herself her first Cheerio (of course we were eating out and couldn't catch it on camera). Anything we offer is received with the cutest and biggest mouth we have ever seen. Something like this . . .

Don't worry we didn't actually give her any pizza (and we subsequently decided to swear off any pizza except home made - we got this pizza b/c we were worn out after Cobb ate 2/3 of a bag of my dark chocolate in the car while we were in Magic Mart and we had to rush to the clinic to make him puke it up, we were all hungry and grumpy and fell victim to the $5 Little Cesar's deal . . . for the last time :-) -.

Anyway we are exploring new foods every week and learning new skills all the time. Such a fun time for her and for us. Stay tuned for crawling and maybe even walking soon to follow (she is officially crawling backwards and pulling to a stand on our laps and grumpy unless we hold her hands and help her walk . . . we are officially in for it, in the best possible way).