New Things

The past week was filled with many new experiences for Elyse. First, her Grandparents came to visit from Indonesia. Now, this is not necessarily new, but they haven't seen each other in 5 months, so in a sense it was new. We had a great time with them even though they were here for only a few days. We had a third Christmas with them and Elyse's favorite gift was the the cardboard a rubberduck came in. She sat and chewed on that for quite awhile. The next new thing for Elyse was being introduced to "solid" foods. She ate rice cereal for the first time this week. The whole experience went very well. She attacked the spoon filled with food and eagarly ate it. The only thing that really got in the way of the food getting to her mouth was her bib. For the first time Elyse was wearing a plastic bib and she really liked chewing on that, so sometimes she wanted to chew the bib rather than the cereal. We eventually went back to her cloth bib so she would eat her food. Since eating the rice cereal, she has also tried oatmeal.

Here are some other things Elyse tried for the first time this week:

Toes in Mouth

Swing on Swingset
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