Holidays 2009 - Part 2

(There is a Part 1 as well.... see below)
We had a great 1st Christmas! We spent a lot of quality time with our Daddy (he had 2 weeks off), our Nagymama, Zoli tata and Hungarian friends.

We went into the city once but it was cooolllllddd.
The flight to Hungary was a piece of cake. The babies pretty much slept the whole time and adjusted to Hungarian time immediately. The flight back was much more difficult. We caught colds and it took a week to adjust. But it was worth it! We are already planning our trip to Hungary and Greece this summer :-)).

Holidays 2009 - Part 1

Babies' eating habits

I just wanted to write a quick post about Gabi and Alexi's eating habits as far as solid food is concerned as it has been a hot topic around here.
Alexi has been eating from a spoon like a champ pretty much from Day 1, which was almost 2 months ago at age 4 1/2 months. We started with simple pureed fruits and Alexi is up to eating solids 3 times a day now and enjoying every bite!
Off the bat Gabi was reluctant. She was disinterested and would spit most of it out, but it seemed mostly due to a tongue reflex. So, here we are 2 months into 'eating solid foods' and Gabi won't even open her mouth for the spoon.. well not willingly at least. We just about did everything short of cartwheels to get her to laugh or smile so we can slip a spoonful of whatever mush we had at the time into her mouth. She is mastering smiling with her mouth closed :-(. And she is so fast.. as soon as she sees the spoon coming... she SHUTS her mouth.
So, over the last few days we made an amazing discovery. Sunday morning as I was eating my waffles I realized that she was staring at me while I ate and she started opening her mouth! So, we ripped off a small piece and held it out to her. To our astonishment, she opened her mouth and reached out her hands!! (Of course we didn't feed waffle to her). She did the same thing when she saw Giagia drinking water from a glass; she opened her mouth. We have given her little sips here and there form a glass and she takes it! Today, we held out a banana to her and she -very excitedly- started sucking on it! Apparently, we are going to skip the whole pureed baby food stage with Gabi and go right into safe, soft finger foods.

Below is a picture of some of the pureed food I made for the babies tonight. I freeze it and everyday I take some out to defrost for that day.

What you see below is a variety of things. I steam the fruits and veggies and then puree them in the food processor.
The orange ones are carrot/pear and sweet potato/apple. The green-ish ones are peas/apple/pear.
The 3 little glass jars on the far right contain steamed pieces of apple, pear and sweet potato. I plan on trying to give them to Gabi tomorrow. Wish me luck!

Happy Thanksgiving!

6 months old!!!