Project Stuff-A-Baby gets under way.

So, as I posted before, my babygirl hasn't really been gaining any weight to speak of, and the pedi told us that he's expecting to see her grow before her next checkup in April. Part of the problem is that she doesn't generally eat a lot of food, still nurses, and didn't really take to cow's milk. So this weekend I decided to embark upon Project Stuff-A-Baby, as in "full of food," and shopped accordingly. I bought vanilla flavored vitamin/calcium fortified soymilk, a bunch of boxes of Annie's Mac and Cheese with organic half-and-half and butter to make it with, rice pudding with cinnamon and raisins, chocolate pudding, avocados, and french vanilla fudge ripple ice cream. She took to the soymilk right away, and has been reliably drinking it in quantities two to three times that of the whole cow's milk. (It's really affected her poopies, too, but that's another story that doesn't deserve posting.) I feed her, not just at meals, but all the time. I constantly have something ready to put in her mouth if she shows any inclination. She especially likes the rice pudding, especially if there's raisins in the mouthful. And guess what? We bought her those plastic toddler spoons and forks, and she actually has pretty much figured out how to eat rice pudding with a spoon! Sometimes she has the spoon upside-down, but once we turn it right-side-up for her, she can spoon it into her own mouth. Aaaawww! Anyway, I was able to get a pretty considerable quantity of food into her this weekend, but it was a lot of effort. I'm hoping she'll show a little more enthusiasm for the project, thereby making it a little easier for me, as time goes on. Oh yeah - and it would be really nice if she'd stop rubbing her food-y hands in her hair every time she eats. Always the same spots - the clumps of hair behind and above her ears. It's kind of funny - like she has these Hasidic Jewish curls coming down, frozen in place with hardened Annie's cheese sauce.