First Meal!

As mentioned multiple times in this blog, Addison's weight gain is "turtle-like slow!" - and we have kept increasing the amount of breastmilk that she's drinking up to 29'ish ounces per day (even though Amy is not making that much per day....so this is not sustainable obviously - as soon as the freezer extra milk is gone, then we're in deep trouble!).  Even with increasing the milk, she wasn't gaining very much weight, so we have decided that while we preferred to wait until she was 7 1/2 months to start feeding her food, that we better start now so that we could get her accustomed to eating before the extra milk ran out.  So, Addison has had her first food - sweet potatoes!

It is obvious that the Z parents are rusty at this, and that our other kids didn't eat this early, because we blithely just fork mashed the sweet potatoes and put some breastmilk in there, and lo and behold, she wanted nothing to do with it!  After a day or two of trying, we had the bright obvious idea to puree the sweet potatoes and make them quite runny.  Now we're in business!  She has stopped rejecting the food and while she's still not gung-ho (although this is not entirely surprising as we used to have to coax her just to drink her bottle for the first few months, so eating just does not seem to be a big priority for little girly), she at least is eating about 1 cube of sweet potatoes twice per day.  We're going to keep her on just sweet potatoes for about 2 weeks before we try introducing mashed/pureed bananas.  We aren't rushing to introduce a lot of foods as we normally wouldn't have even started foods for another month or so.  Thankfully, she did have her 6 month doctor appt this week and the doctor said that her weight was fine even though she hasn't doubled her birth weight (typically what they look for by 6 months).  He said she looked healthy and that her thighs were chubby, so all was fine.  She was 15 lbs 0 ounces at her doctor's appt (25th percentile) and about 27 inches tall (75th percentile).

We had her 6 month professional pictures taken last week - it was a frigid 55 degrees, and the pictures were outside!!!  Thankfully it was at a friend's house, so we were able to take her inside to warm up and take a few of the less-dressed pictures indoors.  We'll post a few of the favorite shots next week!

The informal 6 month picture!

Zachary has been enjoying intramurals over at FLEEC, and just finished up a round of basketball before he moves on to t-ball.  Basketball and soccer are two of his favorite past-times, so it was great fun. 

Zachary is standing in front of the man with the white shirt, and has his arms up in the air (red shirt, white sleeves, grey shorts)

Kaleb has started to give us a bit of trouble with taking naps - not totally unexpected as he's almost 5, but we've been spoiled with how easily he's been going down for naps up until now.  He has started to play in his room instead of napping - such as sneaking in the Leapfrog to play with it, or getting out of bed and playing with his crayons and markers.  One such day this week, Kaleb emerged from his room with obvious signs that he had not taken a nap.....see the evidence in the picture below for yourself! :)

 Phrase of the week:  Kaleb was over at Jennifer's and they were cleaning up.  Blake got out the broom to sweep, and Miss Jennifer said "just don't sweep up the dirt outside" when Kaleb got down on the floor and curling into a ball said to Blake "Blake, I'm dirt, sweep me up!"  She took a picture of it and texted it to Amy at work.