the baby who ate knoxville January 8, 2008
C. is HUUUUUGE.
She weighs about 18 lbs now (she’s 5 months old) and is one of those babies who just looks large - big and blond and blue eyed. I think she’s a throwback to my big, blond Swedish forebears, the Johansens. Plus, since we use cloth diapers, she has that big, round bum that you only get with a cloth-diapered baby. She also has back fat spilling over the back of her diaper. And she chortles.
She’s delicious.
I have been letting her suck food (like mashed potatoes) off my fingers for several weeks now, but now we’ve started letting her have some food on a spoon and….she devours it. She opens her mouth like a little bird and begs for more. She screeches if we don’t get the food into her mouth fast enough. Sweet potatoes are her fave so far, so I have taken to calling her Sweet Potato. It’s still an irregular thing. She gets some “real” food if we think about it or if she happens to be eyeing something on our plates, but she really likes her food.
Anyway, she is growing so fast that she has few clothes that fit. She is in 12 month size everything. She lives in little zipper-ey, footed suits from Children’s Place (no socks to lose, easy for Jon to put on and off of her, no matchy-matchy stuff for him to figure out 
So I just noticed our fave baby outfit is hcurrently
majorly on sale for $4.89 each so I’m stocking up on the 12 and 18 month sizes.
Wow! Our Wing is just 19 pounds and he turns 1 on Sunday! C. is so beautiful - chubby babies are great!
She is adorable! Mine were so small compared to her. Both of them weighed 19 pounds when they were in for their 12-month check up!
I love chunky babies. My 3 yr old had rolls on his rolls when he was a baby. Now it’s odd to have a baby that is 3 months and still fits into 0-3 month clothing. I am surprised you are feeding C solids so early. Did all your kids start solids early?
They have each started when they seemed ready. For J., that wasn’t til 7 months. I think H started really early - like at 3 months (but that was 16 years ago and that’s what the doctor told me to do). Can’t remember when E started.
She’s just clearly ready. She is very interested. It won’t become a major part of her diet for a while, but she does seem to enjoy snacking
I also started calling my daughter “Sweet Potato” when she was that age because it was one of her favorite foods also… still is and I still sometimes call her that
Did you see this Hanna Andersson sale?
http://www.hannaandersson.com/category.asp?mcn=8&gpId=234&pcPos=0&ggpId=83&gpcPos=4