Disturbing...

So I've been getting a lot of my news from BBC lately because I feel the US news is excessively biased. They were talking about Iraqi bloggers and I clicked through to one site in which a woman is blogging from Syria where she took up refuge. I just find it really surprising how much the news leaves out when they report to the American public. They would rather talk about Paris Hilton and "celebrity news" then report about humanity's shameful happenings in Iraq and other countries that the US is occupying. It's only w/ these blogs are we able to really see what's happening. Hopefully the arms of big brother is not as long as to reach through the internet and shush those people as well.

Starting Solids

Today Zhen and I decided Sophie would start on her solids. She is about 6 1/2 months old to this day and ever since she reached 3 months I've been given crap about her needing to start them soon. Even our pediatrician has been asking about starting them (although I have to say...she was not being pushy). It's odd how people think they know what they are talking about just because they raised kids of their own. The way things are done are constantly changing...in order for me to be a good mother (or anyone for that matter) I need to keep myself updated on the current research in the study of babies. What I've read so far have all told me to wait until 6/7 months. Truthfully speaking...I wanted to start feeding her as soon as she hold her head up. It's a fun thing to do I think. But I kept that urge suppressed so that my baby could have the best possible start that I know of.
Well now we finally fed her and boy was it cute! Sophie actually mourned the end of her meal. She usually only cries when she has to go to sleep but today she cried when I stopped feeding her. I think she takes after her dad in the constant need to sleep and me for the need to eat.
During the feeding she kept on lunging forward to get more of the spoon in her mouth and a few times even tried to "help" with her chubby little hands. Her first meal was rice cereal mixed w/ breast milk. I think she's been ready to start for a while. Hee hee. Poor girl. Well the following is a video we made of her earlier today while we were feeding her. I forgot to charge the camera before we started so we ended up only with two short videos and one picture. There is always tomorrow I guess.

Second Tooth :-)

So last week I went and posted about Sophie's first tooth. Well she's been fussy at night lately. Don't know if it's because of her teething or a growth spurt (they're supposed to have one around 6-7 months). So today I looked and lo and behold! Another one of the buggers. Of course it comes to me as no surprise since they usually come in twos...but I'm such a proud mommy if she farts I want to tell the world ^_^.

First Tooth!

Our family just came back this Sunday from a resort in Mexico (Puerto Adventuras) called Sunscape. We are all nice and relaxed now. So on Monday I noticed that there was a white little bump on Sophie's gum line and today her first tooth finally broke through. It's the bottom left one. I tried to take a picture of it don't know if you can actually see it or not. Anyways, yeah!