Our Happy Little Vegemites

It's been almost a week since I posted on here and the reason is simple: this week was chaotic! We discovered that despite enjoying it very much, baby rice cereal does not agree with Little Miss Penelope!! And that meant everyone was unhappy. She already has a few digestive issues - nothing major, just a little bit of pooping trouble thanks largely to the extra iron in her formula. (Although to be fair, she had pooping issues when she was still breastfed too!) So apparently when silly Mummy decided to give her rice cereal she didn't take into account the extra iron in that as well, and factor in what that might do to her already delicate digestive disposition! So by the end of Wednesday I had figured out what the problem was and why my lovely little baby girl was so inconsolable all week. She has cried and cried and cried, and only wanted to be held. Which is all well and good, except for the fact that 1) she's heavy and it's a killer on your back, 2) there is...

Little Miss Penelope had her first taste of actual food today - if you can call baby rice cereal food that is. It's really kind of blah looking. Kind of like what happens when you blend up paper scraps and water to make recycled paper in those kits the kids get. She doesn't have a high chair yet, so I plonked her baby swing chair on the table (and made sure to lock it in place; swinging and food might not be such a good combination!), and strapped her in. She seemed a little concerned at first, but maybe that was at the ridiculously high pitched voice I was talking to her with.   I told myself I was getting her excited about eating by being all squeaky at her....but I think just quietly that I was psyching myself up to give her food because I can't believe she's old enough to be having it just yet! So nothing left for it except to see what she thought. First spoonful and she was a little unsure....  Then she figured out she should swallow it and ...