Favorite things

Our kids have developed a few favorite things this past week.

Hazel: She LOVES looking/staring at, talking to, and smiling at her burp cloths. It's quite amusing. Many of them have lots of contrast colors on them (fantastically and stylishly made by my sister, Hillary!) and she's nuts about them! Sometimes I think she prefers them to me! Maybe someday I'll be more interesting than a burp cloth. I can only hope!

She is also nuts about chewing on her hands. We know it's too early for teething, but she's also chewing on her hands and drooling. We're not sure what's going on!

We started feeding her rice cereal on spoon and she seems to like it! We also gave her some avocado yesterday and that went quite well too! Jude's not into the avocado at all. That's okay, it's still quite early.

Jude: He has developed a horrible habit of pulling his cannula down and out of his nose and putting it into his mouth. It's so frustrating! No matter how well we tape him, he gets it out. We can't leave him unsupervised for a minute, or we'll most definitely find him with his cannula in his mouth.

On another note, Hazel had been eating great over the past few weeks (we think her new reflux medicine was helping). However, a few days ago, she started to go on eating strike again. It's almost like the medicine suddenly stopped working. Our days are now centered around trying to get her to eat enough and taking long periods of time to finish small amounts of food. This is not nearly as fun as tummy time, playing, and reading and I almost forgot how frustrating it was! Please pray that whatever is causing her discomfort is short-lived and we can get back to good eating and fun times again soon.