A Very Eventful Long Weekend

We had an incredible Thanksgiving--we hosted and had both my mother-in-law (who is fabulous, seriously) and my parents over for dinner. Food was great, as was the company. Allie even enjoyed some pumpkin to mark the occasion--no, not the pie, but just some canned 100% pumpkin (have you ever tried that stuff? it tastes just like a tin can--yum). Solids have been a struggle for her--we were really trying with her for a few weeks after she turned 7 months, both at home and daycare, but she got sick and we've taken some time off. Plus she hates it, so it's frustrating to do. But she really seemed to enjoy the pumpkin, so I'm thinking maybe she likes the thicker stuff, not the wimpy baby stage 1 foods we've been giving her. So I think we're going to try to beef up her remaining stage 1 stuff w/ cereal and start working on some stage 2 foods as well as some grown up foods like banana and avocado. I know, I've got big dreams but we've got to get this kid off the boob at some point. I am not going to be breastfeeding her at 8 like that YouTube video, thank you very much.

Besides the good eating, Allie also felt that Thanksgiving and all the attention was a good time to break out a couple of new moves. Both were awesome, but my fave was, if you asked her for a kiss, she would open her mouth a little bit and lean towards you to give you a kiss! It was so heart melting--she did it to me several times and once with my MIL.

The second thing was the debut of a new face--she kind of pulls her hands up under her chin, back of hands together and smooshes up her face into a pouty look. We call it the Grumpy Rapper, as it looks like she's doing one of those high up arm crosses popular amongst old school rappers. You know, like the guy on the left here:

It's pretty much the cutest thing ever and we were all crying with laughter over it. And on Saturday she went from her tummy to a seated position, which she hasn't done before.
She got another cold though (which makes 4 I think for the fall--it sucks) and hasn't done the kissing thing since and only randomly will pull the face. She's on the mend again now so hopefully we'll see the return of both soon!