Yogurt!

I bought a few different things at the grocery store this morning in my attempt to get Nadia to start eating more solid foods. She always is VERY interested in eating whatever I am eating, and I had given her a few tiny bites of my yogurt several times which she always really liked. I eat light yogurt for breakfast, and I don't really want her eating artificial sweeteners. So I bought some plain yogurt today, and I gave her some before her 2nd nap, and she liked it. YAY! I also bought unsweetened applesauce, oatmeal with bananas (baby cereal), and sweet potato puffs (Gerber's Graduates). A friend of mine said her son didn't like rice cereal but did well with oatmeal, and I know she likes bananas so the Gerber oatmeal cereal with bananas caught my eye. Plus I had coupons for both Gerber items I bought. I am encouraged though by how well she ate the yogurt. It had gotten to the point she would start sobbing if a spoon was coming near her mouth no matter what time of day I tried to feed her solids or whether it was veggies or fruit or rice cereal. Hopefully she'll like the oatmeal and applesauce as much as the yogurt.

Thursdays are the day when Nadia doesn't get to play with her Daddy, but in general I think she gets more time with her Daddy then most babies do. He leaves for school about 8am and gets back about 7pm on Thursdays. Thankfully most of his days aren't that long! She gets SOOO excited when Daddy comes home from school. Her face lights up and she about jumps out of my arms. It's so cute to watch her little arms and legs moving with excitement. She loves her Daddy, and of course he loves her very much also!!!

This morning she didn't wake up until a little before 6:30am. YAY! Although I haven't been letting her get up before 6:00, she has still generally been waking up before then. For example, yesterday morning she woke up at 5:08. This morning I let her chatter for a few minutes in her crib and then went and got her at 6:30. So we are moving in the right direction! That meant she had slept over 11 hours straight as she fell asleep a little after 7pm. My goal is to keep her up until 7pm again tonight if at all possible. I think 7:30pm would be a better bed time for her, but for now I'll be happy with 7pm since for so long it was a challenge just to keep her up until 6pm. She's definitely not a night owl. I'll concur with Paul that she takes after her Mommy in that regard. :-)