I ate eight cheerios!

I guess I haven't put this up on the blog so much, but Ally is the Girl Who Would Not Eat. She takes her bottles fine, so it's okay, but she pretty much refuses food. Except for graham crackers and the occasional few bits of applesauce. We think it's mostly about wanting to self-feed but not quite being able to yet. I mean, she is a peanut, and she doesn't need to eat much, but she has been down to almost nothing.

But today, we had some triumph. She INTENTIONALLY ate some cheerios.

After the first one was pushed into her mouth while her head was shaking no, she decided that these things were good. She actually opened up and chewed about 8 cheerios before we hit her limit. That brings her lifetime total cheerio consumption to 9. (The first one wasn't really on purpose.)

Yes, I know she will grow up and will be able to put 8 cheerios on one spoon with milk and eat them simeultaneously in the future. We know that she will eat in the long term. It's just that food is stressful in the short term when your kid eats next to nothing.

Ally loves her Mommy!





















Ally can play with the food, except it goes everywhere but in her mouth.




















Yes, it's tiny, and I don't know if anyone can see it in the photo, but her first tooth is just visible.