Straw

The morning sunrise viewing didn't happen.  If you're shocked, then you clearly don't know me very well.  Hopefully tomorrow.  

D bought a Hello Kitty cup with a straw for Avery.  I'm sure it's loaded with BPA, but I let her have it anyway.  Avery now knows how to drink out of a cup with a straw.  Yipee!  Still no progress in getting her to hold the milk bottle, but maybe when we get home and I find a more acceptable (i.e. less BPA loaded) straw cup, she'll drink milk out of that.  

We've also had some minor improvement in Avery's eating recently.  Before we left for Mexico, we were eating steak one night.  Avery's interest in eating what we're eating has gotten much stronger.  She showed very little interest until about a month ago.  Anyway, we tried to appease her with the potato, but she wanted the steak.  So we cut up a piece that was small enough to avoid choking (or at least we hoped it was small enough) and gave it to her.  Avery will put most food into her mouth now, but she spits about 95% of it back out.  She chewed on that steak and then swallowed it.  She did the same with some turkey the next night. I guess she's been waiting for meat.  She would never eat any of the jarred food with meat in it, but I can't blame her.  Even the organic stuff is just nasty. 

D has gone into town for some supplies and groceries.  Unless you're just getting groceries, a shopping run requires stops at multiple stores, so Avery and I are staying behind. 

We downloaded Skype last night and were able to talk with some of our Mexico neighbors who are up at their primary home in Canada.  Their friends will be using our casa soon, so we were coordinating those details and generally catching up on Loreto Bay happenings. We happened to meet this couple at the airport in LA on our first trip down here.  It was just luck that we get along so well and ended up buying houses near each other.  It's also a good situation for us because they are retired and planning to spend a lot more time down here than us, so they are able to check on things if we need them to.  Finally, they bought a car and drove it down here to leave, so in the future we can borrow their car rather than renting.