working up an appetite

We were planning on waiting until 6 months to start Claire on solids, but she apparently had other plans. Over the last week she has seemed both increasingly hungry and extremely interested in watching Art & I eat. She has also been doing some pretty intense workouts lately...about 90% of her awake time has been spent on her stomach as she desperately tries to scoot across the room. She pushes her body up on all floors (basically a push-up position) and even drops down into a crawling position, but has yet to move more than a few inches forward at a time. She is still most successful moving around in a circle. Saturday morning she must have done 5 full circles...she was even making me dizzy!

Her intense cardio sessions prompted us to feed her rice cereal a few weeks prior to her half year birthday. While very little of the cereal make it into her stomach, she enjoyed her first feeding session.