Solids, here we come!

On Friday, we took Sydney for her six month well baby appointment and got the go ahead to start solid foods.  We are starting her with rice cereal once a day until she gets the hang of it.  This morning we got everything ready: bowls, spoons, cereal, bib, camera, video camera (can you tell we are first time parents??)...  Sydney grabbed at the spoon some and tried to bite it as well.  When she had had enough, she closed her mouth and pretty much refused to open any more.  Considering it was her first time, I think Sydney did great!  She is definitely interested, and while there was some gagging involved, we are hopeful that she will get the hang of eating pretty quickly. 

It's like Christmas morning!

Mmmmm....mixing rice cereal

Putting on a pretty, clean (for the moment) bib

I'm all ready!

Not so sure about this

Ummm, guys, are you sure you know what you're doing?

Still not so sure...

Yeah, lemme have a sip of that!

GAG!

March Madness

This is probably Blake's favorite time of year...NCAA tournament time!  He watches pretty much all the games, even games with smaller conference schools like Oral Roberts and McNeese State?!?  The other night, NC State played in the ACC tournament, and Brent and Andrew decided to come watch in hopes that State might pullout an upset.  Needless to say, State has had a flop of a year which carried into the tournament game.  Once we were down by about 10 points, we found other ways to entertain ourselves...

Making faces

Trying on hats

Trying on bows

Playing around

Six Months Old!

Where has the time already gone?  Everyone says how fast children grow, and now we are experiencing that first hand!  It truly feels like yesterday we were packing Sydney up to bring her home from the hospital.  Now we are witnessing her personality take shape and both her mind and body grow right before our eyes.  She continues to amaze us!  Here are just a few pictures of our beautiful girl.

Starting to sit up on my own!

Sitting in the big girl part of the stroller

Doing big push ups- maybe crawling soon?

Standing up holding onto Mom's hands