Animal Crackers In My Soup

I have been singing that stupid song all day. I know it was for a good reason but it is driving me crazy. Today we hit a milestone. For most this is nothing but for us this is HUGE!!!!!! Kaylie ate an animal cracker and 4 puffs. Whenever we give her any type of table food she freaks out before she has even swallowed it and makes herself throw up. The good thing is we that with our bottle feeding experiences keeping us in the NICU as long as it did we were prepared. Really she just sucked on the cracker but she did not throw it up or choke. That is AWESOME! She liked them so much she got mad at me for taking them away. Wow! Hopefully this will be the start of some good eating. We have not regained the weight she had lost in the last few weeks so hopefully eating table foods will fatten her up. My next step is bananas and mashed potatoes. Why those two...I don't know but it sounds good. I think their is less of an opportunity for her to choke because they are both mushy. Continue to think good eating thoughts. I do not want to have to take her to someone who specializes in feeding disorders. Hopefully, this was the first step towards many happy eating moments.

For Kaylie's birthday she was given a piano. It is the perfect size for her. Before I had a chance to set it up she was already trying to play with it. She was so happy. She has doing these big over sized laughs accompanied by these big over sized smiles. It is precious. It is so cute watching her explore. She has not figured out that if you crawl over to one of the sides you can reach the other parts of the toy. Instead, she stands by the key board and tries to reach for it. After a few minutes her legs start to give out but instead of just sitting down she slowly starts to sink by putting her head on the keys and her butt farther in the air. After giving her the animal crackers she decided that the only way to play the piano was with a mushy cracker. The poor piano will never be the same again.

I thought this picture was adorable. This was the first time she played with it. Look at the smile on her face.

Her is the picture of our big over sized smile and laugh.

I have already wiped the cracker mush off of the keys a few times. It is hard to take away the cracker when you know how big of a deal this is.

Last but not least...I was able to get two really cute pictures of her this afternoon. I was trying to fold clothes with a one year old climbing all over me. At one point she had actually climbed the mound of clothes and started throwing them all over the place. I loved it. I stopped loving it once she hit my folded piles. =)