Not sure what to make of this business!

Six months.  Our little Sophie is six months!  I'm convinced that time is passing much more quickly now than when I was a little girl.  It's hard to believe we've had sweet Sophie in our lives for six whole months.  Almost seven!  On September 24 she had her first taste of solid foods.  That morning while Lydia was eating her granola I put Sophie in her high chair for the first time.  We got her bib ready, handed her a spoon to keep her interest while I mixed her cereal, and then got started!  The first bite led to Sophie gagging quite a bit.  Not used to anything staying on her tongue.  The way she looked at me it was like she was saying "what am I supposed to do with this?  It's not just melting away or sliding down my throat!"  As we progressed to the second and third bites she would work her tongue around a little better and eventually swallow.  Quite a bit of cereal would find it's way out of her mouth as she attempted to figure things out.  I expected her to open her mouth immediately upon seeing the spoonful of rice coming her way, but she didn't.  The fact that everything she can get her hands on goes into her mouth immediately these days meant nothing when it came to that spoonful of food.  Nothing at first anyway.  She really didn't know what to do with it, but before long she knew that she liked it.  It had been at least a month and maybe longer since she started showing interest in eating as evidenced by her attempts to seize her sister's food or food from my plate.  And for about a month prior to Sophie starting cereal I'd been talking to Lydia about her helping to feed Sophie once she started eating solids.  She was so excited!  I got her out of her high chair and she asked to hold the bowl and spoon and then gently held out the spoon to Sophie.  For some reason Sophie wanted to take it from Lyds where she hadn't tried to with me.  I tell myself it's because Sophie wants to do everything she sees her big sis doing, but really I have no idea.  I just know that both girls were happy at that moment.  Sophie ate squash later on in the evening after Jon got off work and I was back from Young Women's.  She is definitely a fan of squash and green beans, loves carrots, detests peas, prefers peaches to pears, and tolerates prunes.   We like to pretend there's a train coming and when we say "choo choo!" Sophie's mouth is wide open!  Ready to devour another mouthful.  So happy and so grateful for this new phase of her life.

On a side note Lydia asked to try some of Sophie's food just the other day.  I fed her a tiny bit of the rice cereal I had just prepared and wasn't horribly surprised when it was immediately rejected.  Lydia then spent a good thirty seconds rubbing remnants of cereal from her tongue and was still disgusted with what I'd given her.  Didn't matter that she used to eat it three times a day for a good six months of her life!  She's moved on to bigger and better things.  No need to try that again!