We like carrots! In fact, Baby Rimes likes her carrots so much that she was licking her lips for more. Her little tongue would dart out and try to reach up for all the carrot that was left on her face.
Daddy likes carrots too. They go in orange, and come back out orange too 
Our baby is a bully! I witnessed our small semi-mobile infant pull herself up to a bigger baby and try to take away a rattle. She finally wrestled it away from the pigtailed baby only to shake it twice and throw it down onto the floor. What a meanie!Â
Pigtails got up and got the rattle and crawled away as fast as her little knees would take her. What did our baby do? Tried as hard as she could to chase the first baby. Fortunately for Pigtails, Baby Rimes doesn’t go too fast, and she got away.Â
 Next month we will learn how to SHARE.
We are now on day 3 of green beans. Hooray! We almost like the green beans. It is still not rice cereal, but it is MUCH better than sweet potatoes.
We’re not sure whether it was Baby Rimes that brought the illness from daycare (currently there are several babies out with various illnesses), or if we shared our germs with her, but we know one thing for sure; we’re all sick. Stuffy noses, labored breathing, cloudy heads, and ringing eardrums are all now daily occurences in the Rimes household. After a trip to the doctor, some steroid injections, and a humidifier Baby Rimes managed to make it through the night only waking up and screaming at the top of her lungs twice. Mommy and I can’t wait until she develops something really nasty.
Hopefully as January comes to an end, the colds will as well.
We have begun the arduous task of feeding our child “real” food. She has already been doing a great job with her Rice Cereal. In fact, she likes it so much, she puts it in her hair, behind her ears, on her high chair, and between her toes.
The latest addition to her menu has been the sweet potato. We mashed it all up, blended it, mixed it with milk, and spooned it up. The first time we tried it, it went right in. However, she was howling for food, and anything in the mouth was better than nothing. After 5 bites, she caught on and refused to eat until she had a bottle of warm milk.
Another attempt last night brought slightly better results after Mommy and Daddy found a trick. Mixing sweet potato and cereal is much yummier than sweet potato alone. MMMMmmmmMMMM.
There I was, enjoying my cute little drooly princess when all of a sudden, a very loud screaming fest started. She was quite content to giggle and scream quite loudly, so I giggled along with her. I looked down and there they were…. the first little buds of two front teeth. But now the unhappy screaming has begun. She is cranky and irratable and miserable. Soon, soon, soon they will be wonderful baby pearly whites.
Then the real fun can begin….mashed bananas will be my favorite I think.