Baby Zusman: Rice Cereal

Today we decided to try giving Benjamin rice cereal mixed with some of his milk. The first couple of bites, he scrunched up his face a little at the texture, but then he most happily ate every last drop of the mixture! He kept grabbing the spoon, the bowl, and eagerly awaited every bite with excited noises. Perhaps this will help him sleep through the night more (though last night he slept for eight hours in a row! I got 6 1/2 hours of sleep in a row - the last time I got that much sleep in a row was on November 13th (yes, I have been keeping track!)). However, we are not sure we want to begin the process of giving him solids before we really need to do so. It sure was fun today, though! I have included lots of pictures from his feeding, as it was too hard to pick only a couple! They were all so cute.

I like how he has his hand on Daddy's arm.

Finally, everyone is okay but we had a minor incident where we needed to call the fire department out to our townhouse. Our carbon monoxide detector's alarm was going off at around 7:30 pm this evening and we realized we weren't sure what we should do. We opened the windows (burr!! at least it wasn't last night when it was -26 windchill) and Steve decided to call the fire department. They came out with their truck and checked out our place and told us that they couldn't detect anything in any of our rooms or in our blood (they tested Steve's oxygen and carbon monoxide levels). They also reset our detector. Benjamin was very surprised to see so many firemen (around 4 or 5) in our usually quiet home and watched them as they walked by. When he started crying, one of them tried talking to him so that he wouldn't be so upset. They were all very nice - I'm so glad Steve called so that we could know that we hadn't been exposed.