First food, first Halloween, and first friends!

Baylus had her first "solid" food today! Just a little rice cereal mixed with formula, but we are so excited to introduce her to real food! She'll eat the rice cereal for about a month and then move on to vegetables. Baylus had a good Halloween, and she dressed up like a ladybug for a while, and also a pumpkin! We only had one trick-or-treater, so we didn't really get to show her off, but I think she liked being snuggled up in the ladybug costume. The last picture is Baylus with her mommy group friends. They were hilarious all laid on the play mat together. There's also a pic of her in her little basinette taking a nap...so precious!

Baylus goes to New York!

Baylus had a lot of firsts in October! Her first plane ride (see above), her first trip to NYC, her first subway ride, first trip to a museum, first cab ride, on and on I could go! We spent a long weekend in New York recently and we hit the ground running! As you can see from the pics below, Baylus visited the MOMA, the Met, Central Park, and Bleecker Street, among other sites. She slept for most of the plane ride to New York, and only cried for about a minute on the trip back to Memphis. Baylus had her portrait done in Times Square and got some new digs from Lucky Wang, the coolest baby store ever! She put up with being dragged all over the city, from Chelsea to see Kelly and Jodi all the way to midtown east, where we met Doug and Martha at the Oyster Bar at Grand Central. Our friend Aja went with us and took care of Baylus two of the three nights (Thanks, Aja!) We had a great time, but regret that we did not get to spend time with so many of our family and friends living in New York. Hopefully our next visit will be sooner than later!