Veggie Time

It's peanut butter, jelly time....not quite yet, but it is sweet potato time! For Trace's introduction to the world of vegetables, we selected the ever-tasty sweet potato (our choices weren't aplenty -- sweet potato, carrots or squash).

Last Saturday, during LSU's victory over Tennessee in the SEC Championship, Trace ate his first sweet potatoes and enjoyed them much more than rice cereal. He's eaten them for five days now, and since he's shown no allergic reactions, sweet potatoes are now going into his feeding rotation. Tonight, we get to move onto either carrots or squash. Hopefully he takes to these just as easily.

We ordered a Bumbo online the other day to help teach Trace how to sit up, and it's taken him no time to start enjoying his new seat:

We hope the seat also become part of his feeding routine, as his bouncy seat (see pic above), has been visiting the washing machine quiet often lately.

It's such a fun and exciting time watching Trace grow and learn about the world. Teething is starting and he has a speck of a tooth coming in on his right side. Pretty soon, his gummy smile will be filled with little teeth. It's crazy to think that in a few weeks he'll be 6 months old. Time sure does go by quickly.