Better Late Than Never

Hello All!
     I've been planning on starting this blog ever since I found out I was pregnant, but what with moving to Tennessee and finishing up my thesis, one thing led to another and Martha Rose is now 6 months old. Oh well, like the title says, better late than never.
    Hopefully, this blog will be your one-stop shop for anything Martha: pictures, news and fun facts, with maybe a little Noble and Claudia updates thrown in for good measure. I'll try and update at least once a week, and more often if I get the chance. I can't make any promises about the writing, but the pictures sure will be cute (even if I do say so myself).

To kick off the news portion of this little shindig, Martha has just started eating real food! And she's....not thrilled. It has been about two weeks now, and what turned out to be a lackluster start has developed into an outright refusal to even open her mouth.
     Still, I'm hopeful. I've always said that one of my major campaigns as a parent will be making sure she's an adventurous eater. This has meant more than I initially bargained for. I realized that if I plan on insisting that Martha Rose eats things she isn't sure about, that I'd have to bite the bullet and do the same thing myself. So I'm working on broadening my own horizons. Last week I tried pickled mushrooms (not bad) and I'm working really hard on my aversion to onions (slow going. They are still gross). Maybe by the time she's aware of what I'm eating, I'll be digging into all sorts of stuff. It's actually kind of exciting.

     Anyway, for the time being, it looks like I've got my work cut out for me. Oh well. Too bad, Martha Rose! I won't give up! I will prevail!!!!

But enough of that, now onto the main event: Pictures of Martha Rose :)

Her first bite of avocado:

She is not convinced:

 

Martha Rose does not like barley cereal:

 

Why are you doing this to me?

 

Noble can still get her to smile:

 

She has this spoon-thingy figured out:

 

Well, almost: