How about them appl... uhm... green beans?

Kate had her second helping of Green Beans this evening and despite a few grimaces here and there (like the one pictured at left), she did much better this time 'round.  There was much less hacking, choking, and gagging tonight - which made the dinner experience far less entertaining for Chesney and me.  But, I guess that it is more important that Kate actually eats and gets food in her stomach than in trying to make her parents laugh at her ridiculous facial expressions (if only we could somehow manage both).  We also got a portion of tonight's feeding on video as well, so hopefully I'll be able to post a few excerpts once I have time to transfer it to my computer.  

On the bathing front... Kate seemed to discover this evening that she could make the water go flying from the tub by violently smacking her hands against it.  Initially, I think that she did it by accident.  She had one of her floating toys in her hand and began to shake it up and down like she does so often with her toys.  This time, however, the toy ended up making contact with the surface of the bath water and it caused a huge splash... causing water to go flying 3-4 feet behind her.  From there, she repeated the experiment several times with the floating fish toy and then moved on to trying it with her bare hands.  Water was going everywhere!  You should have seen the smile on her face (and on mine).  I have a feeling that bath time will become a much more chaotic experience in the days to come...

 

Ho Ho Ho... Green Beans

Kate had her first taste of Green Beans tonight...  and, man, do I wish I had the camera at the ready this evening!  Talk about a wasted opportunity for some hysterical pictures.  For the record, Kate DOES NOT like Green Beans.  Either that or she simultaneously found something else at the dinner table completely distasteful.  Up until now, she's had a pretty good run on enjoying the baby food we've been giving her - bananas, sweet potatoes, etc... so, she's pretty well conditioned to open up her mouth whenever the spoon draws near her face.  Therefore, it was a lot of fun this evening watching the wheels turn in her head as she would instinctively open her mouth to receive the baby food... and then quickly clamp her mouth shut when she would remember that her parents were trying to kill her with that awful tasting Green Bean junk.  

You had to be pretty quick with the spoon to get anything in her mouth and not all over her face.

Kate will be having a second helping of "green sludge" (her name for it) tomorrow night, so we should have some pictures to post then. 

And so it begins...

I'm not entirely sure I'm happy about this new (self-imposed) developement in my life - that of having my very own blog.  One that I am sure will be all time consuming and will be yet another drain on my extremely valuable time... gotta feed the blog, gotta feed the blog.  But, I do enjoy writing every now and then, and as I mention on the little side bar to the left, I now seem to have a little bit of free time every evening as Kate (and my wife for that matter) hits the bed somewhere around 8:00pm.  I also have been fearful as of late that I'll miss out in documenting all of the various Kate-isms that our little daughter exhibits on a daily basis - her absolute devotion to the overhead lamp in our living room (it has a warm red glow), her not entirely accurate Stevie Wonder impersonation (which we refer to as Stevie Steve), and her recent disco neck manuever (the girl's got soul).  As one Kate-ism is replaced by another, I'm afraid that the joys of the day will be forgotten, replaced by equally desrving and entertaining quirks of babydom.  This blog, therefore, is an attempt to preserve in time some of which I am sure (with the dimenishing faculties of my brain) will be lost as time goes by... because, although a picture says 1,000 words, so does 1,000 words.  And, from my experience, the written 1,000 words is far more accurate.   

The blog has begun.  The static friction has been overcome...