good eats

Eli's been eating us out of house and home! Since there's a max amount of formula babies should have in a day and Eli is consistently going over it, our pediatrician said it was time to start giving him cereal. He'll be four months next week, so just a little bit early. I was a little worried about how it might go, but he did pretty well. The second time went better than the first. He still doesn't know what to do with the spoon (or his tongue, even, really) but I think he'll catch on quickly.

By the way, he weighed in at 14lb, 6.5 oz. That's almost triple his birth weight (5lb2oz)!

Here's Cereal Face in pictures and video!

Eli's first solids from shannon burke on Vimeo.

9w2d - heartbeat!

Aaahh!!! Home doppler finally came through and I found it! Josh isn't nearly as excited as I was so I hope you all will be excited with me. :)

8w6d

Against my better judgment, I bought some baby paraphernalia yesterday. I know it's early and a tad risky, but I found a MOPS resale event at a church nearby and I went to look for some things for Noah. I didn't find much in the toddler section, but they had giant landslides of baby clothes. I couldn't help it, really. I dug through the piles looking for yellow and green and left with a handful of gender-neutral onesies. They were all from Carters and I only spent $3.75... oh, I love second-hand shopping!

I decided to break out the doppler today and see what would happen. It seems the chances are best to hear the heartbeat on a home doppler between 10-12 weeks, but I've heard of some moms hearing it at 8 weeks! So I've been determined that it'll be earlier than that. Today was not the day, though. Now I'm all slimy and I have a headache from listening to my own heartbeat and my whooshing placenta. Did you know it makes noise? Anyway, I thought I'd share the moment with you, so here's a listen to my heartbeat. It's the only sound of life I can find down there just yet, thanks to a certain giant artery in the crotch area. Isn't it sweet? Aww. ;)