My daughter is trying solids foods!

Raine my adorable daughter is growing up so fast it's insane!
I remember being pregnant this time last year and I'm thankful I'm not this year.
She is turning 6 months old next week and I can't get over just how fast time has flown by for my little family.
Within a year we have:

• Moved twice, once to a new apartment for 3 months and then cross country and been living in our new residence for 3 months
• Found out we were having a baby and then had said baby
•  we are getting ready for school once again.
• And I changed my hair color from blonde to expresso to chocolate brown!

So I decided that it was time for her to start having something new for food because for all those moms out there and for those preparing in the future, (this might seem T.M.I but you'll find out anyway)
Your nipples get SUPER sore after a while.  Now after a some time they do get numb but you still have problems with them every so often.  

Now the other issue we have is that we our have our 2 year anniversary coming up and Raine needs a different feeding schedule and way to sleep because I need to get out every so often.  I got 2 months to do that so wish me luck :P

Here we decided to after talking with my sister in law that we were going to give her Green beans first.  Now I DETEST green beans thanks to my parents along with a lot of other vegetables but this is the one thing I REFUSE to eat no matter how it's dressed up.

But Raine LOVED it.  Just like her daddy.

Now today I gave her peas and she enjoyed that too to my surprise.  She starting coughing to get my attention and then was reaching for the bowl because she was so excited.  I can't tell you how happy that made me because i"m nervous she won't be ready for me to leave in 2 months for a 2 day trip.  

But seeing this made me hopeful that she will.

She was so happy with me feeding her that she couldn't get enough of it!

Now here is a tip on when feeding solid foods to baby:

• When you give them something new for the first time, put some on your finger.  Your finger is the perfect temperature already and baby's used to you.  So it'll be something familiar with something  new.  (Dad's can do this too.)
• Most importatly warm up the food a bit.  A few seconds in the microwave won't hurt. Tjhen stir to spread the heat evenly.  Babies HATE cold food. (trust me)
• Don't feed them directly from the container.  The saliva will break down the food and when you go to use it, it's already began being "digested" so to speak.
• Start with a little.  That way you aren't wasting so much the first time, and can see if there is progress too as you feed them.

In other news, my birthday is coming up in a few weeks and I am clueless on what i"m going to do about that.  Birthdays are just another thing that come along now but I still like to celebrate it with my husband.

I haven't made any friends out here yet so it makes it a little easier to go and make sure I do something just with the hubby.  It can be sad sometimes though because I don't have a "girlfriend outlet" but I'm okay with being humble and playing with baby girl for now anyway. Because she needs my full attention since she's still pretty young.