Hurricane Sandy and Cereal

All last weekend we had been hearing scary reports about Hurricane Sandy moving up the coast and turning inland. It was supposed to be directly over Central Pennsylvania, and we had gotten notices from the electric company that if the power went out, we could expect it to be out for up to FOURTEEN DAYS!!! I guess because we live in a pretty rural area we would not be a top priority for repair crews, and they were expecting widespread outages and a lot of wind damage. Everyone was pretty freaked out - schools were cancelled before any rain ever fell and the grocery stores and gas stations were mobbed. I went to Wegman's over lunch on Monday and ran into my sister-in-law. We had a good laugh about all the people crowded into the frozen food aisle - they must have missed the lesson in disaster preparedness. My office technically closed at 3pm on Monday and closed on Tuesday, so after work on Monday I went home and took a hot shower and enjoyed the electricity while we still had it.

Connor turned five months old on Monday. He must have had a rough day at Bostley's, this is how I found him when I got home from work:

After we were finished our dinner, we decided to celebrate Connor's "birthday" by giving him some cereal. We had gotten the green light from the doctor last month to start trying solids when we were ready. I figured five months would be a good time to start, so I mixed it up and here are the results (we tried to get a video but Ryan forgot to press record!):

It wasn't as messy as I thought it would be, but I think we made the mistake of giving it to him right when he woke up, and was probably really hungry so I think he was a bit frustrated with the whole process. I know that right now we're really only introducing him to these foods to get him used to different tastes and textures, as well as eating from a spoon, but I don't blame him for being less than thrilled by the cereal - it didn't look very appetizing. We tried again on Tuesday, but this time he wasn't quite so hungry. The results weren't much different - except there was probably more cereal on the face and fewer tears:

We'll keep at it and hopefully start mixing some more exciting foods in as he gets used to it. I think we are going to try to make as much of our own baby food as possible. I guess I better load up on laundry detergent and stain removers!

Hurricane Sandy was a bit anticlimactic for us. We got a lot of rain and moderate wind, but thankfully we never lost power. Ryan saw patients on Tuesday and I ended up going in to work around 930am to get some things done. We were very lucky that the storm did not live up to the expectations in our area!