It's been a while... here's your Piper picture fix.

It's been a while since I've posted the latest Piper Album.  Here are some of our favorites from the last month.  Some of them may be a repeat from the food pictures below, but I know you just can't get enough of little PQ anyway, so it really doesn't matter.  :)

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She really is growing up too fast.

Don't forget to wash behind your ears

Now I know why mothers always harp on their children to wash behind their ears.  During Piper's bath last night, as she was sitting up and playing with her toys in the water, I noticed something weird behind her ears.  Yup... carrots!  She had, apparently, somehow gotten carrots behind her ears during dinner last night.  Why she thinks that's a good place to wipe her dirty hands, I don't know, but now I do know where that old saying, "Don't forget to wash behind your ears," comes from.

On a side note... Piper is gobbling up her veggies and fruits like a champ!  Last night we started with 2oz of carrots.  That was not enough so we moved on to a little pear puree mixed with rice cereal.  Even after that she was still hungry so she got a bit of the plain pear puree for dessert.  Man, that kid can eat!

She likes it!

After our failed attempt at rice cereal we thought we'd give some veggies and fruits a shot.  Our first one... carrots!

I've decided that I want to make Piper's baby food. I couldn't believe it, but it so easy... and WAY cheaper! Making carrots took about an hour, and most of that was just the steaming (so not really work anyway). I peeled and cut up the carrots and then steamed them for about a half an hour. The recipe I got said 15-20 minutes, but it really took about 30. That's okay though because it was Football Sunday so I just spent the time back and forth between the living room watching the game and the kitchen checking on the carrots. Then I pureed them in the blender with some of the water left over from steaming.

Here's what Piper thought...

I think she's a fan!

Piper versus the rice cereal

We decided to start Piper on some rice cereal last weekend.  We were originally going to wait until 6 months to start solids, but lately she's been grabbing at our food, staring intently when we eat or drink something, and overall just seemed ready to take on this new adventure.  So we mixed up a little bowl, sat her in the Bumbo, and off we went.

This is what she thought...

I don't think she liked it very much.  This weekend we will try carrots.  Supposedly they are a good first food.  We shall see.

Piper's 5 months old

Jason's college roommate Joe, who now lives in NYC, came to visit us this weekend. He took a ton of beautiful pictures, and here are the best of the best!

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