Speaking of other babies, I have been getting to know a few other new mothers which has been nice. On Wednesday we took our little ones to the San Diego Zoo. Pictured below from left to right are: Kate, Kristen, Kelly, Me and Luciana. Luciana and I work together at UCSD and she introduced me to the other girls.
It was a beautiful day and I had a lot of fun but Reese seemed more interested in people watching than checking out the animals. We bought a season pass though so we'll go back and see if she becomes more curious about our four-legged friends.
Keeping so active is exhausting especially since Reese STILL isn't sleeping through the night-- even though she is at the point (5 months today!) where most babies do. She has been waking up every 2-3 hours for several weeks now and it is driving me and Mike crazy. We aren't sure if she's waking up because she's hungry or if she just wakes up between sleep cycles and thinks she needs to nurse to get back to sleep. We are trying out a lot of techniques and I even got a book from the library on teaching baby to sleep.Some people say that starting babies on solid foods can help them sleep better because the solid food takes longer to digest than breastmilk. So, we gave her rice cereal for the first time on Friday. I don't know that it's helpng her sleep but it did make for a good photo-op.
First the spoon by itself so that she could get used to having it in her mouth. 
Everything goes in her mouth these days so she enjoyed the spoon immensely.
The food on the other hand, was not what she was expecting.
Everything goes in her mouth these days so she enjoyed the spoon immensely.The food on the other hand, was not what she was expecting.
In the end, most of it ended up on her chin but, we did get better the next day.
And, in what may be a coincidence, but could also be attributed to her new diet, Reese slept for 4 hour stretches last night. This may not seem like much to you but in Mike's words, for us it's a luxury.
