New News and Day Three

Leila kept trying to grab food out of our hands while we were in Michigan, so we decided to go ahead and give her some rice cereal when we got back.

We, of course, expected her to spit most of it out, but we were surprised to see her eat almost the entire bowl we gave her!

 It was messy, but really fun. Want to watch the video?

Since then, she's had cereal almost every day. We've discovered she prefers to have a bit of liquid in it and that she'll spit it out more often if it's too dry.

She keeps trying to take the spoon and help feed herself. Which would be great if she didn't keep gagging herself. :)

We were surprised to discover a truce had been made in honor of Leila's first time eating solid food.

As for our Michigan trip, day 3 was spent hanging out with our family and going to eat Coney Island hotdogs for dinner - a must if you're ever in the Flint or Detroit areas of Michigan!

Here is Grandpa and my 8-year-old cousin, Rory, watching the men cut down a huge tree in my grandparent's yard.

While they did this, we went on a walk through a nearby neighborhood,

 

where we came across this...

Who knew they grew corn in Michigan?!

Then we went home and got cleaned up to go get some good old coneys!

The boys were excited about pushing Leila in her stroller.

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And everyone else was happy to entertain Leila, too.

Here are some videos we missed...

-Our layover in Atlanta video.

-Leila's first bath in her ducky video.

-The video of Leila showing off the sound she learned while taking a nap last Tuesday. (Seriously. She woke up from her nap and started making this noise at me.)