Thanksgiving Shenanigans

Holly's first Thanksgiving was a fun experience! She mostly slept, ate and watched football - much like the adults in the family! She'll fit in just fine. :)

For the past few weeks we've been giving Holly a teaspoon of rice cereal mixed in with an ounce of formula prior to bed. Last night we introduced her to the spoon! We prepared some rice cereal for her in a bowl (the consistency of thin gruel) and she loved it! She would cry when I didn't get the food in her mouth fast enough. Obviously we have some more practice ahead of us with eating from a spoon, but I have every confidence that she'll get the hang of it quickly. Unfortunately, there were no pictures or video of this milestone, but sometime this week we'll record it.

Holly's continuing to sleep well for us at night. Ideally, we'd like for her bedtime to be between the 8:00 and 8:30 time frame, but she's a stubborn munchkin and will fight us the whole time and finally collapse into sleep around 9:00, 9:30 or 10:00. She'll get anywhere between six and nine hours of sleep, which is something we definitely do not complain about. Last night she was in bed by 9:00 and slept in until almost 6:00 this morning. I don't know if it was the cereal, the breast milk at 8:30 (after fighting sleep for the previous 45 minutes) or she was just that tired, but we liked it. Here's hoping for more nights like that!

I did manage to record a video of Holly playing under our Christmas tree. She absolutely adores the lights and she happily laid under our tree for a good hour or so last night.