Yesterday, Laurel turned 5 months old, and today she celebrated her first Christmas! It was a great day. William’s parents were in town to help us celebrate. My parents were not able to make it down, but we will see them in a few weeks when we go to Cleveland for my cousin Shannon’s wedding. We started the morning by checking out the goodies in our stockings. William loves to be in charge of stocking stuffers, and does a great job every year. He fills them with our favorite candy, and some small trinkets. Laurel’s stocking was filled with things like new teething rings, and fun toys. She sat in her Bumbo seat and played with her stocking toys for quite a while. We then began opening gifts. Laurel had some great gifts, but was much more excited about trying to eat the wrapping paper. 🙂 She became a bit tired midway through opening her gifts… yes… she had that many, so she took a nap and we continued later. After enjoying some blueberry Belgium waffles using the batter William picked up at Williams-Sonoma, I began my cooking. The spread for the day included turkey, ham, macaroni and cheese, sweet potato casserole, corn on the cob, greens, rolls. I also baked a sweet potato pie and chess squares the night before, so we had some sweets in the house (although my mom sent chocolate chip cookies she baked, so I was already on a sugar high). It was the first time I had done that much cooking since Laurel was born and I really enjoyed it. My sister, brother-in-law, and nephew joined us later for dinner. After a failed attempt last week to feed Laurel rice cereal, which she had absolutely zero interest in eating, we tried offering her sweet potatoes today so that she could join in on the Christmas dinner, but did not seem interested in those either and actually made a face as if to say she did not like them at all. So… perhaps we will try again another day. We have both photos and video, so we’ll get those posted as soon as William gets them downloaded on his computer.
We hope everyone had a Merry Christmas!!
I’m smiling thinking of the face that Laurel made when you tried to feed her. It just sparks my imagination, at this age what is she thinking?
Texture? Taste? Why is this in my mouth? Ugghhh? Umm but what to do?