The Kleins: Triple treat

Hello! Everything has been going good here in the Klein household. The high chairs are finally assembled and last week we introduced solid foods to the babies for the first time. It was a fun occasion! We started with rice cereal and all 3 babies seemed to like it (what food ended up in their mouths that is). As always, Madeline seemed to catch on the fastest. She quickly grasped the concept of the spoon and begin opening her mouth to food without much difficulty. Caleb really enjoyed the taste of the cereal but his darn tongue kept getting in the way and was pushing the food out of his mouth! Funny little guy. Mischa wasn't too impressed. She took a few nibbles but after that she was done and wanted out of her high chair. I started making their baby food at home and it's actually been pretty fun. As most of my family knows, I've never been much of a cook so this is a special occasion for me to actually prepare food. I'd much rather clean the kitchen than actually cook! Ha ha :) But I have to say, I'm actually impressed with myself. This week we moved on from rice cereal to a delicious pear puree and then a sweet potato puree...all prepared from scratch. The idea of making homemade baby food is actually wonderful and not as time consuming as I thought it would be...but then again these little munchkins are only taking a couple teaspoons of food each so the time consuming part might change as they begin to eat more! The best part of introducing solid foods to the babies is that they are all sleeping better at night! In this first week we have cut out one entire bottle feeding session at night which is wonderful for us parents. To our surprise, even Caleb, who never skips a feed at night, has been sleeping more than ever. We really didn't expect to see a change so quickly but by adding a solid food feeding in the evening, the babies seem to sleep longer at night which is fantastic! Another factor to them sleeping longer is the addition of kids blackout curtains to the nursery. Wow, these curtains really do work in keeping the room darker. Normally Caleb is up every morning as soon as the sunlight hits the room which at this time of year is as early as 5 am. However, with the curtains, he's sleeping in until 6:30 am...hallelujah!!

Not much else going on here. Here are pictures from the past couple of weeks. Hope you enjoy!