It has been exactly a year to the day since Jenny came home after 2 weeks of hospital bedrest, with all of us concerned about a tiny baby. What a difference a year makes! Now, it seems, this child is getting heavier by the DAY. With our Christmas trip behind us, and Jadyn back at school with other children close to her age for much of the day, she has been CHOWING on the solid foods available to her with her friends around. One of the teachers said she left for a break with Jadyn eating cheerios in the kitchen, and came back a half hour later and Jadyn was STILL seated in her chair, picking cheerios off the tray. !!! She wants to eat when she sees all her friends eating, and she has been eating pretty much everything the staff has put in front of her (all age-appropriate foods off the school's menu). At home she is no longer very interested being fed cereal and pureed fruits and vegetables from a bowl and spoon. She'd much rather have foods she can pick up with her own fingers. Here's Jadyn enjoying a meal of avocado bites and shredded cheese.
A few other recent photos: Jadyn waiting at the front door for Mommy to return from yoga class, Jadyn opening a gift from Ed and Marcela, Jadyn with Marcela and her new little tiger snuggly (small enough to be safe at bedtime), Jadyn in the bathtub with new floating "bugs"
Jadyn has strength enough to walk, but she hasn't shown much interest in letting go of the things she steadies herself with, and so we wait. She is quite a climber, though, and can crawl pretty fast now. She likes to crawl out of the room, and then look back to see if someone is following her; when she sees an adult in pursuit, she laughs and takes off again. Thank goodness that moving through the rooms in our house gets you right back where you started -- she can never get truly lost!
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