Mmmmm......Cereal!

Kamdyn went to the doctor yesterday (8/7) for her four month check-up. She is a healthy baby, says the doctor. She weighs 14 pounds, 10.5 ounces and she is 25 inches long. She got three shots, which was hard on Mommy and Daddy. :( Even so, we all survived! The doctor also said that we could start giving Kamdyn either rice or oatmeal cereal. Yes, I know, we are probably the ONLY parents in the world who actually waited on the doctor to tell us that she could have cereal. But, she is none the worse for it and has been a happy baby that sleeps 12 hours a night WITHOUT cereal. Surprise, surprise, it turns out that babies can sleep through the night without cereal contrary to popular belief! Trial and error and trusting our instincts got us through and bedtime is a breeze for Kamdyn and for us! :) So, I did give Kamdyn some rice cereal tonight and she really seemed to LOVE it after she got the hang of that spoon. She ate every bit of what I had made which was about 3 tablespoons of both cereal and formula. She did keep pushing that little tongue out trying to figure out what that stuff was. But, she was determined to figure the spoon and cereal out. And, she did! Hmmm....I wonder who she gets that persistence from??? So, here she is eating her first bowl of cereal. If she's like her Mommy it will be the first of many, many bowls of cereal. We will have to start buying two gallons of milk a week in a year or two....one gallon for her and one for me! :)