The solids have begun!

5months 2wks 4days old

I've begun weaning Freya! While we were on holiday she was so obviously hungry and wanting more than milk so I started giving her a couple of spoonfuls of baby cereal on the days she was cranky. Now she's had it a few times but still hasn't got the hang of it! She'll have maybe 5 spoonfulls but it takes a good 10 minutes to get it into her with all the spitting out she does (she enjoys it but hasn't learnt how to keep it in her mouth yet and even swallowing the different texture takes a bit of thinking about!). I'll keep going with just baby cereal mid-morning for a couple of weeks and then maybe start on my home-made fruit and veg purees!

Also, she's quite a mobile little thing now, rolling with ease from back to front to back across a room, and can do a 360 degree turn on her tummy to reach the toys she's after. I'm so pleased she's happy to spend more time on her tummy now. Last night was actually the first night she chose to roll onto her tummy to sleep which worried me as she has anabsolutely stinking cough and cold and I thought she'd smother herself so kept rolling her back over!

She's also started to do a very uncoordinated little wave! If you wave at her she'll either waggle her fingers back at you or do some kind of karate chop movement! So sweet!

She's a typical whingey whiney girly when she's not getting her own way, lol, and if I'm in view when Noah touches her she'll cry (fake!) although if I'm not around just plays nicely with him! She doesn't often take her eyes off him and even puts up with being his play thing and having him squeeze her hand (which for some reason he does a lot - the only unkind thing he does to her). Other than that she's a typical laid-back family member and is such a little joy to be Mummy to!