On the Baby B front, I started him on bananas.  I had tried a few weeks ago, and he hated them.  So I waited another week and a half, and he LOVES them.  He grabs my hand and tries to shove the spoon in his mouth.  It is so cute to see him moving the bananas around in his mouth.  He is 5 1/2 months old, and what a difference it makes to wait to feed your baby.  With my first two, I fed them cereal at 3 months.  They made faces and spit it all back out. Yet, day after day, I kept forcing it down their throats.  I thought at three months you were supposed to give them cereal.  That's what the doctors said.  Well, along came baby number 3.  I read alot more and was now aware that babies didn't have to have food until 4 - 6 months of age.  Wow, that's a long time to wait!  I was determined to wait until at least 4 months.  When I went to the doctor at her 4 month visit, the doc told me to start solids.  (stinking docs, what do they know anyway?)  I waited until she was 4 1/2 months and then started her on bananas.  She still had the "stick the tongue out and all the food with it" reflex.  But, I still kept feeding her.  I had waited a month and a half longer than I had with the boys, and that was hard.  I got such pressure from the people around to start solids.  "Maybe she'll sleep better.  Maybe you'll have to nurse less.  Maybe she'll gain some weight."  I got all that pressure this time around again.  But, with each time around, I get more confident (also I didn't/don't have the time to deal with the mess of solids and wanted to wait as long as posible.. hehe...).  So now I knew that I was doing the right thing by waiting.  No, he wouldn't sleep better (the first two didn't sleep any better).  Last week, I really felt it was time to start him.  He watched us intently and tried grabbing what we were eating.  He moved his tongue around in his mouth imitating us when we chewed.  I wish that everything that I am learning while raising my kids, I would have already known the first time around.  I feel that by the time I have my last one, I will be learning the last of what I need to know to do everything right, and it will be too late.  Great, I'm going to be one of those bossy, know it all, do it my way, kind of mother-in-laws!