Rachel and I spent much of the afternoon today with our almost-relatives, Doug and Linda. (Doug is the brother of my cousin David's wife, Anne). Linda couldn't get over how much more of a person Rachel is -- crawling, making noise, eating baby food, etc. I bring her over so Linda and Doug can get their "girl fix." (They have two rambunctious boys).
Linda's comments about Rachel made me realize that I can't always see how fast she is growing. I feel as if she's stuck on six months -- that she really hasn't developed since then. While I'd love to see more of Doug and Linda, one good thing about seeing them only, say, once every 2 months or so is that they really notice the changes in Rachel!
We have her down to four bottles a day and lots of jarred baby food in between. She likes almost everything except what I call food "with pieces in it," such as pilaf or rice. One distressing thing is that she has no interest in learning how to use a sippy cup, even when I offer it to her instead of a bottle. We've also tried to feed her grown-up food, like small pieces of cheese and crumbled-up bits of meat, or, at Linda's, pretzels and goldfish crackers. She'll either take it in her mouth and let it dribble out, unswallowed, or throw it on the floor.
The other night we thought we had hit on something she liked -- spaghetti and meat sauce. She lifted up a strand of it and seemed genuinely enthusiastic -- until she whipped it around her head, like a lasso, and flung it to the ground.
This is why I'm mopping our kitchen floor at 10 p.m. on a Saturday night, waiting for Drew to get home from Seattle.
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I have tried to feed Marigold some organic oat puffs from Target (similar to Cheerios), but she just choked on them. She has also choked on her dissolvable biscuits. I'm not quite sure how to proceed. It's scary to see her choke and I sort of panic. Guess I'll talk to the pediatrician at her 9-month-check-up coming up.
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