We started Mia on Cereal!

Well, it finally happened. We started Mia on cereal on April 12th, this past Saturday when she was 15 weeks old! She is 3.5 months now. I was a bit reluctant, but now that I have started it, I see it's really not a big deal. She is doing very well with it, and to be honest, there is really not a big difference from her drinking formula with cereal as opposed to without it in Mia's world. We add it to her bottle so the formula is just bit thicker and will hopefully help her be satified longer. She didn't even know the difference. She sucked it down the first time without any strange face, etc. After the first few nights she was introduced to rice cereal, it did not seem to help her sleeping longer. However, last night we gave her about 4.5 ounces with the cereal in it and she slept from 930pm to 330am. Maybe it is starting to help. We'll see. That is a big accomplishment. What I am going to try and do is try to keep her up later so she will sleep until maybe 5-6am. This would be so much better. I really think she should be sleeping through the night, but I'm not too worried. Everything will come with time:) I am giving her cereal in the morning and late in the evening.

I also drove with her for the first time alone from my parents house to our house in Morristown today. I never drove this far with her alone...I know, I'm a big baby myself...lol. She was always so fussy and cranky, but now that she is doing so much better and I have finally done this, and things in the driving department seem so uphill from here! Thank goodness. See, it's all coming together, this mommy thing!

What else, she has not turned over yet. Sometimes when she is on her back, she'll push herself to the side, but not completely over. When her little toys are in front of her, she seems to be starting just a little to understand the power of her little hands. She moves then around and when her hands hit the object they clamp down and the object heads right for her mouth. I still do not think she understands the concept of reaching out to grab it, but I am sure that is not far off. I have these toy things that hang from her car seat handle and dangle in front of her. She swings her hands around and realizes that they hit it and make it move, so she keeps doing it. This is something new. I think that is about all her major changes thus far. Nothing really that big from the last entry.

Of course, she is cuter than ever, she laughs out loud more often. I'd say average once a day, and we are just loving every minute of her. We took her to a restaurant tonight in Morristown. There was a bar as well and it was a bit noisy. Mia managed to fall asleep, although not really falling into a deep sleep.

We just gave her a bottle and it's 1045pm. I am happy about this since it is later than her usual bedtime. Hopefully, she'll sleep later as well. We'll see. If this works, I am going to try and keep her up until later.

Oh, the pictures we took at Sears are here! I am posting them on this entry! Hope you enjoy. She was 3 months exactly when they were taken. It's amazing. The time is really flying now. She is almost 4 months old. About 2 more weeks to go. Cannot believe it.

The weather was the best it's been for a while and Mia spent the majority of the day outside today. At my parents house, she was in the backyard. She fell asleep in my arms as I walked outside with her. She has been pretty much indoors the majority of her little life considering she was born in the dead of winter. I cannot tell you how happy I am to have her enjoying the fresh air! It's SUCH a pleasure. She seems to love it! She is always intrigued by everything she sees and hears when she is outside. It's almost like she is saying, "wow, there is another whole world which exists outside a house!" :):)

I guess that's about it for now. I'm gonna run because Mia just fell alseep in daddy's arms and this is my signal to get the heck to bed if I'm going to make the most of my sleep. Yes, she runs the show ladies and gentlemen! ha ha

Hope you enjoy the pics.

Talk to you soon!

Love, The Bellomos :):)