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Sometimes I wish I had an easy baby.

The good news: Evelyn is finally eating solid food. It took a lot of work and it’s hard to say exactly what happened to get her out of that rut, but we’re there. Her favourites are yogurt, fruit and sweet potato but she has had a number of other vegetables, cereal, beef, chicken, egg and chickpeas. She also likes fresh pears cut in cubes and has tried some other fresh fruit. She likes cheerios and these “sweet potato stars” that we bought and will eat bread and crackers sometimes.

The bad news: she’s a *really* picky eater. Sometimes she will taste something during a meal that she doesn’t like and get furious and then it will take 5 minutes just to get her calmed down so she can try again. We always have to mix the egg, beans or meat with a vegetable, fruit or yogurt and sometimes the vegetable has to be mixed with something too or she won’t eat it. She also prefers things that are crunchy so if I try to give her something soft (e.g. cooked rice, steamed vegetables cut in cubes) she usually squishes it and throws it on the ground. Most meals are very taxing for us. She refuses to drink water most of the time so we are really worried she isn’t getting enough fluids. We will talk to her doctor about it tomorrow.

Evelyn has 4 teeth and lots more on the way so I am trying to brush them at night but it isn’t very successful. She cries and turns her head away from the toothbrush and it’s very hard to get the brush in contact with her teeth. I have been doing this for over a month now with very little success.

She went through a phase where she wouldn’t hold still for diaper changes and would flip over on her tummy almost as soon as she was set down. Now she usually gives us about 20 seconds before trying to turn over so we are able to do things more easily now but it’s still tricky.

Sometimes I feel so frustrated and I really wish that Evelyn would give us a break. Pretty much everything has been a big trial with her and it’s hard to be optimistic about the future. I don’t want to sound overly pessimistic here because she’s really a wonderful baby and very clever but I just don’t have the patience for baby tantrums some days. She gets upset about so many things all the time and is REALLY LOUD. If this is what she’s like now I wonder what the “terrible twos” will be like. Best case will be that we don’t really notice the difference, worst case will be unbearable.

I haven’t had a chance to blog in a very long time because we moved two weeks after we came back from our Christmas holidays and I am back at work full time. We had to buy a washer, dryer, fridge and stove for the place, bought a car (long story, more later) and I had a root canal. Things have slowed down a bit.