A taste test

For the past week or so Annalise has looked really interested in the food we are eating. I thought it was kind of early but then I realized that I started feeding Jeremiah rice cereal at four months so maybe Anna was ready. The other night at dinner Annalise started making this disgruntled noise, and pouting her lips. It was really cute and pathetic. So Brian and I thought lets try to give her some rice cereal. Well Annalise is interested in food to say the least. I put one spoonful in her mouth and she started to smile really big and coo, but her tongue doesnt have eating figured out yet. Here are some pictures to show what I mean...
Annalise is getting ready to take her first bite.

"Okay I like this rice cereal but my tongue keeps getting in the way"

"Hey this is really good, can you see all the rice cereal on my face and on my tongue"

"Ha, ha mom will have to give me a good bath tonight"

Jeremiah was pretty interested in the whole feeding Annalise for the first time experience. He told me she was hungry. Then he decided he would only take bites of his chicken and broccoli when Anna took bites of her cereal. Look at the smirk he is giving the camera.

So last night Annalise had rice cereal for the second time. It started the same way. We were eating she was making disgruntled "my life is miserable noises" and pouty faces. As soon as she saw a little bowl and spoon she was happy. I guess she doesn't really care whether her tongue is ready as long as she can join in the family meal :).

Shamu! Shamu!

I hate the crowds at tourist attractions, especially when you are carrying a baby in a baby bjorn and every other stranger feels it is their right to touch your daughters leg and comment how big she is. On another tangent I finally told someone at SuperTarget not to touch my baby as she started cooing at what chubby little girl Anna was and her hand started to reach for her face. I was not rude I just backed away and said "Please do not touch my child, I do not know you" Sorry for the sidebar. Back to tourist attractions, we live really close to Seaworld...I mean you could almost smell Shamu if the wind was right. So of course with my youngest Korean aunt and her two daughters (ages 4 & 6) visiting, we had to go.

Jeremiah was really excited as were his cousins. Half the time they were here it was hard to get them to wake up before 9 but with plans to go to Seaworld we were out the door by 9:30. For a mere $5 you can purchase fish to feed the dolphins which also enables you to touch them. I say mere because it has to cost a lot of money to take care of the dolphins and feeding them is the only way they will approach you to let you pet them. Jeremiah wasn't to keen on feeding them but he really wanted to touch them and he got really close but was a few inches short.

Jeremiah really wanted the dolphins to come closer, and look you can see Anna's profile. I will admit she is chubby but that doesn't mean I need the commentary of strangers.

Geena getting up close and personal with a dolphin, but she was afraid to actually feed him the anchovy, so finally I had to give it to him or her (how can you tell with dolphins?)

Jeremiah reaching out to touch but just a little too short.

So after visiting the dolphins, we went to the Aquarium, watched the Shamu show and the Seal show and went to the water park. Annalise and I relaxed in the shade while everyone else experienced the wave pool, waterslides, and kiddie splash area. At least in the shade no one tried to touch Annalise.