A big girl eater!

Sydney eating lunch today!


I'm sure many of you are aware that Sydney has been a bit of a picky eater ... she hasn't been too big on table food or anything with texture (cheerios, fruit puffs, etc.) and only prefers to eat oatmeal and veggies ... not fruit (I know, she's a little odd ... I suppose that's our fault since she has our genes!). At least she has always loved her cup of water!

Well, over the past few days she's turning over a new leaf. Being that she's 10 mos. tomorrow it's about time! I thought maybe she'd live on pureed food until she was 2 (ok, so I wasn't really that concerned, but for convenience sake I'm excited!). She now loves to eat cheerios, fruit puffs, crackers ... and today for lunch (for the first time!) she had grilled cheese AND she ate an entire container of fruit! She ate about 1/4 of my entire sandwich! It has been nice to be able to sit her down and give her finger foods that she likes while I get some other things done.

Before she wouldn't let us even try to put anything in her mouth in an attempt to convince her it's yummy ... but now she seems to be more than willing to open up and try pretty much anything anyone is willing to give her (evidenced by the fact that she allowed Hailey and Justin to attempt to feed her part of their vitamin this morning ... I was able to fish it out of her mouth after Hailey told me what she was eating!).

Sydney also pulled herself up to a standing position in her crib for the first time the other day! She's typically on her knees waiting for me to get her, but this time she was standing up. She seemed to be stuck standing there since she doesn't know how to get back down once she's standing up. It's fun to see her do all kinds of new things ... and get into all kinds of things too! My basket of tea bags is her favorite!