Ava's eating solids!

Eating cereal for the first time.  She's now sleeping even longer at night, as we'd predicted...yay!

Ava is one messy eater!  She immediately puts her hands in her mouth after getting a bite of food and then moves those hands all over the place.  I'm not looking forward to seeing how she later feeds herself (we've been pretty fortunate with Jameson)!!!  BTW that tuft of hair is something special (hey, some babies are bald) :)

Ava's eating all kinds of yummy foods...cereal, pumpkin, apple, banana, mango, kale, spinach, blueberry, yogurt, peas and PEANUT BUTTER...so many fruits, veggies, cereal and yogurt - just no minced meat yet.  Regarding that peanut butter, we had Ava tested for food allergies, some precautionary testing in response to Jameson's allergies.  Hooray!  She was cleared and we've been instructed to start feeding her peanut butter on a daily basis which research (640 "high risk" babies, 5 year longitudinal study showed a drastic reduction in peanut allergies if fed 4tsp peanut butter/week from ages 4-11mo) now suggests minimizes the risk of developing an allergy.  Fingers crossed she stays allergy-free!