Bottle-free

We had a big milestone this morning – I put away or got rid of all of Julia’s bottles!  Lucky for us she has never been attached to her bottles and she hasn’t had one in several weeks so we’re on to cups only! Yayyy!

New Foods

This was the scene at lunch today:

Can you tell that Julia really likes black beans?!?!?

She also polished off an entire order of edamame on her own last night at dinner.  Other foods that have been recent hits include steel-cut oatmeal, Bhutanese red rice (really yummy actually – a new one for all of us), grapefruit, hummus, lemon chicken and pasta (the more lemon-y the better!), fruit juice gelatin (still doesn’t like juice though – not even a drop mixed with her water), strawberries, and most important to Andrew, pizza. :) 

We’re keeping our fingers crossed that she remains a good eater! 

Off to Florida

Well we have completed another wonderful vacation, this time to Florida to visit Grandma Susan and Grandpa Herb.  We set out on Friday with a car trip to the airport, a flight to Orlando and another car to Vero Beach.  It was only Julia’s second trip on a plane and she did great!

On our first full day we headed to the beach to watch Julia play in the sand.  It was a blast watching Julia play in the sand and chase the seagulls around the beach.  She even crawled for 20 feet, further than either Alyssa and I had ever seen.

From there we headed off to the pool.  We were not sure how Julia was going to like it after our past swimming adventures.  But she took to it like a little minnow.  Apparently the water just needs to be warm enough.

Altogether we had a wonderful five days hanging out with the Grand Parents.  And a special thanks to them for letting Alyssa and I sneak off for a night where we got to do some quiet reading around a pool on our own. 

I think Alyssa and I both wished we could have stayed in Florida longer.  But at least we have another vacation to look forward to at the end of the summer.