First Food

Callum "enjoyed" his first "bout" with people food (rice cereal) two nights ago. We waited a few days longer than we wanted to to give him the cereal, since he's been sick and all. Here's Callum getting the spoon for the very first time......





Contrary to how he LOOKS, he actually didnt hate it all that much; I just dont think he knew what to do with himself. He needs to learn the act of "slurping" the thin cereal off the spoon, as, for now, he "sucks" it as he would when he feeds on...um...other things. But, in true Goldsmith form (yeah right), he was a fast learner, and eventually wanted to eat it himself....


He looks absolutely gross when he's done--milky rice cereal all over his place. Undoubtedly, I need to get used to this, since soon it will be things like spaghetti sauce, squash, and crab rangoon!! But we've given him some more cereal since the first time, and he seems to learn a little more about eating each time--although, if he's anything like his dad, learning to eat wont take too long!

Hopefully by next week we'll try some squash and some butfor


Last night Lynne, George, Amanda, and I went to a fantastic show at the Waterville Opera House--"A Celtic Winter Sojourn" featuring a Cape Breton artist named JP Cormier. I opted to get tix for this instead of the Nutcracker this year, and it was a great decision! The music of the maritimes is so special to Amanda and I, since we honeymooned in Newfoundland, and the great island holds a special place in our hearts. Cormier and his accompanists (a superb multi-instrumentalist from Cape Breton, two fiddlers, and one other guitar player) produced an amazing soundscape of jigs, reels, and story-songs from places like Nova Scotia, Ireland, Scotland, Newfoundland, and New Brunswick. Beautiful, energetic, emotional stuff....and virtually IMPOSSIBLE to sit without virtually STOMPING your feet to the beat. Instruments played included guitars, bazookies (sp?), fiddles, pipes, banjos, mandolins, and bass. We were so moved by the sounds that even me, Mister Miser, shelled out some shekels for one of the performer's CDs.

Oh, and yesterday was my 12th anniversary of remission from lymphoma. Woo-Hoo!