We left on Monday for Mexico for the New Year. Xaris has continued to travel well, and she did fine on the plane and visiting with all the family in Mexico. We also got to spend time with some of Ricardo's high school and college friends!
She loves her Abuelos.
Fernando is one of Ricardo's best friends from high school. If you have been a long time blog follower, you might recall a post around Thanksgiving time a year ago where both Brisa and I were pregnant (but barely showing). We tried to get some belly pictures on the beach in Florida, but we kind of had to force our tummies out.
Julia is their daughter, and is one week older than Xaris. She is quite a bit bigger though--not surprising when you see how tall her dad is! We met them for coffee at Starbucks in Juarez, Mexico. Apparently it's been there for a little bit, but this was the first time I got to experience it! They have a few different drinks--one being a Cherry Mocha. Ric ordered it and I tried it...not bad, but too sweet for me to drink one. We were really glad to be able to see these friends though. They live in Michigan so it's not often that we can get together.
A few other highlights from the week:
We have a puller-upper! She didn't actually do this on her own, it's too tall. But she is pulling herself up into a standing position on smaller things. We crawls and scooches anywhere she wants now, and together with the pulling up we have realized that we need to get a move on the baby/child-proofing of our house!
Ricardo had to make tamales by himself this year! I was trying to get Xaris down for a nap, and as she has so many cousins who she loves, she wasn't doing a very good job calming herself down enough to sleep! Ricardo made the tamales, and we've decided to keep practicing during the year this time so we remember how to do it by the time next year rolls around.
We have a good, and sometimes voracious eater!
She's decided to like most of what we've tried. She now eats rice and oatmeal, butternut and acorn squashes, green beans, yogurt, avocado, apple, pear, sweet potato, teething biscuits and sweet potato puffs :) and the only thing that she has not liked is carrots. I tried them again this week and got the same reaction. She may just not be a carrot fan. I don't blame her, I really only like them raw--cooked are pretty nasty.
I hadn't tried really hard to introduce many new things in her first two months of eating solids, so now we're going to focus on increasing the things she eats. She is getting interested in table food and is able to eat pieces of stuff instead of just purees. Next up: Cream cheese, toast, brown rice, blueberries, cantaloupe, grapes, broccoli, lentils and tofu! That should get us through January!
