Crawling and Cereal

It is hard to believe that Elyse is 6 months old and she is crawling already. As my neighbor says, 'she is doing the Desert Storm.' Indeed, it is a very fast army crawl. Her little arms and legs just move as fast as they can.

Last week, she was doing nothing Monday-Thursday. She was rolling around, but not moving. On Friday, a switch in her little body must have switched on. The switch said, "I have got to move." And move she does. She wants to move all the time!

I am so thankful for a healthy baby. When I look at her I think about the following verses:

Psalm 139: 13-18

Oh yes, you shaped me first inside, then out;
you formed me in my mother's womb.
I thank you, High God—you're breathtaking!
Body and soul, I am marvelously made!
I worship in adoration—what a creation!
You know me inside and out,
you know every bone in my body;
You know exactly how I was made, bit by bit,
how I was sculpted from nothing into something.
Like an open book, you watched me grow from conception to birth;
all the stages of my life were spread out before you,
The days of my life all prepared
before I'd even lived one day.
Your thoughts—how rare, how beautiful!
God, I'll never comprehend them!
I couldn't even begin to count them—
any more than I could count the sand of the sea.
Oh, let me rise in the morning and live always with you!

On another note, we started cereal about 3 weeks ago. She started like a champ and gradually declined. We have tried, cereal and warm water, cereal and breast milk, cereal and apple juice. All of it would go in and back out again. So, yesterday I thought I would try really cold water and cereal. It was ice water and cereal. She loved it! She ate the whole bowl. Tonight I made about 4 veggies into baby food and put them in the freezer. I wonder if I will have to give her ice cold veggies too?