Backwards crawling

Penny can now crawl backwards. It's pretty funny when she's trying to get a toy and she keeps moving herself further and further away from it. But, I know our days are numbered and she'll be crawling forwards soon enough.

I'm still not having much luck with getting her to eat solids. I got her to eat some rice cereal at dinner time, but I mixed it so thin it was pretty much just milk. I tried apple sauce, but she didn't like that at all. Ditto on bananas for the last few days. I really thought once I started giving her fruits that she'd like those a lot - aren't kids supposed to love fruit? Anyway, I hope once her ear infections clear up and she gets off the antibiotics her interest in solid foods will pick up again.

She still isn't sleeping well. She slept fitfully until 1 am last night and then woke up crying. I walked her around a bit and she went back to sleep until 315 and then woke up crying. I walked her around and she went back to sleep until 530 and then woke up crying again. I walked her around and we laid back down until 615. Now, to me that doesn't seem like the antibiotics are working - but then again it only took me 3 or 4 minutes of soothing her to get her to stop crying versus maybe 15 or so in past nights, so that is an improvement.

But to keep things in perspective, we know of a family whose baby is very, very ill right now in the hospital at UAB. I imagine they'd give just about anything to just be dealing with ear infections. So, I really can't complain.