Rose has a huge appetite now. The only thing we have to feed her is cereal--good for iron, etc. Besides that, she's switched to small bites of table food that she feeds herself. Her 2 favourites are avocado and grapes. After she got over the illness we realized she didn't really like being fed anymore. She's fine with being fed her Gerber biscuit flavour cereal, but nothing beyond that unless she really likes it. Like if we smash up an avocado she'll eat that off a spoon. She has even successfully eaten fish and chicken in small pieces and little bits of bean and broccoli. This is a huge deal!! Since we eat dinner really late I feed her cereal around 5:30 when I start to prepare dinner. Then she gets out of her highchair to play, and joins us for dinner and finishes the rest of her meal which she can feed herself. It's working out really well.
I wish we had a dog though because some ends up on the floor. And when she's done eating she begins her spastic arm swiping motions to rid her tray of any and all food. I always noticed that Jen's floor was so clean, and that was because Abby was always hanging out under Paige's, and now Lizzy's feet cleaning the mess.
I've also began to introduce her to milk in her sippy cup. Full on cold from the fridge. So far she'll drink some of it. I have just been giving her a bit of it with her lunch. If I ever want her to drink more I may try to warm it a bit, but I'd prefer she enjoyed it cold of course! Oh--and yesterday I gave her peanut butter. I was 99% positive there wouldn't be an allergy, but I only gave her a tiny bit on bread to start. Paige has had peanut butter every day of Rose's life, and Mike actually gave Rose a bite of a peanut butter cookie by accident once.
