SO Big!

Today when we went to the grocery store, Lexi rode in the cart for the first time – in the kid’s seat, that is. Before, we have either carried her or put her entire car seat in the main part of the grocery cart (they have very large carts here) and piled the food around her. But she has been sitting up well enough (still not completely stable, but close) that we thought we would try it. She seemed to enjoy the trip as she was able to look around more. She did keep trying to turn around so that she was facing the direction we were pushing her, but obviously couldn’t.

I have also been talking to some of you about Lexi eating solid foods so I thought I would share with everyone because there are some differences in what is available here. First, we have not been able to find baby food in jars. So this means if we want to feed her anything besides cereal, we have to make it ourselves. Having house help is nice as since the blender is now getting a lot of use and neither of us like to clean the blender, we can have Jane do it. We have cooked and mashed up/blended sweet potatoe (not liked too well by itself), squash and bananas (not cooked).;l,vcfcC~Cccccccs aas,,,,,,,,,m (Lexi was helping with the typing there.) This week’s new ‘real’ food is paw paw (a fruit).

There is a variety of powdered cereals though that you add water to and we have tried several flavors. Wheat or rice are the bases – and you can get them plain – and then they are flavors like wheat and banana or rice and carrot, etc. Today, we picked up a different brand of cereal – the flavor is chicken and vegetables. Sounds tasty! J Lexi seems to really like all of the cereals so far no matter what the flavor. There is also Nestle brand baby cereals but we are avoiding them for ethical reasons. If you don’t know why, ask us.