Yum Yum!

We are pretty sure this is what Cate would say about rice cereal if (1) she could talk and (2) her verbal skills were sufficiently advanced that she had mastered sarcasm. Yes, much to Ford’s delight we recently started solid foods. Five months old was a little earlier than I had planned to start feeding her solids, but we have been looking for ways to get additional calories in our little munchkin. We followed the tradition of starting with rice cereal, but Cate does not seem pleased with the taste and/or texture. Fortunately, bananas and avocados have been much more successful!

Cate is suspicious of her first taste of rice cereal.

Bananas are much better!

Other notables since our last post include Cate’s first illness….it seems that Cate managed to pick up Fifth Disease (also known as Slapped Cheek), a common childhood virus. Her cheeks were bright red for about a week and while she wasn’t too sick, she was definitely out of sorts. Overall, it wasn’t too bad as far as first illnesses go, but it was pretty sad that Cate obviously didn’t feel so hot and there wasn’t much we could do about it.

Cate continues to roll over (still mostly front to back, with the occasional back to front roll) and her ability to grab objects has increased noticeably in the last month. John and I put her exersaucer together a few weeks ago and she has been busy mastering the various toys. Of course, the exersaucer, like most toys, isn’t really made for children in the fifth percentile for height, so her feet didn’t exactly touch the ground when we first starting using it….nothing a phone book couldn’t fix, though!

Cate enjoys playing in her exersaucer.

Too bad her feet don't touch!

At this point, Cate isn’t showing any signs of sitting up. Although she enjoys being on the ground and enjoys standing up (with assistance, of course), something about sitting seems to make her uncomfortable. If you try to make her sit, she makes her whole body straight as a board and puffs out her stomach. As you can imagine, this makes putting her in the car seat lots of fun!

Cate looks cool while spending a Saturday downtown.