Cute Pictures

I just wanted to share a few cute pictures of Alaina!

To eat or not to eat?

Alaina has been unsatisfied lately with eating. She just could not get enough to eat! That was all she was doing was eating! So I called our pediatrician and he suggested we start giving her cereal by a spoon. So, that Friday night we went to Wal-mart to get cereal. I was so excited that I was going to start feeding Alaina with a spoon and before I put her to bed, I told her how exciting the next day was going to be. Yeah, right!

I started feeding her that morning. The cereal was the consistency of formula and she could not get enough, quick enough. So she cried. Real tears -- something that we do not see much of! So I gave up and gave her a bottle.

I tried again at lunch time. Once again she cried tears. At this point I also cried. So I decided to forget it, worrying that we were not doing the right thing by putting the cereal in a bottle. But Daniel assured me that we do not ALWAYS have to do what the pediatrician says.

Here are a few pictures of her eating, before she started crying.






Over the next couple of weeks we all tried - my mom, mother in law and me - to feed Alaina with a spoon and it did get better after we made the consistency of the cereal thicker and Alaina adjusted to the spoon!

Wow! Motherhood is hard!