Noah eats

Noah seems to be getting hungrier every day and every night. I don't know what happened. He used to be "sleeping through the night", or at least only waking up once. Then, about three weeks ago, suddenly he turned into this crazy nocturnal creature. I don't know anything about parenting or babies, but I do have a couple of theories: Growth spurt. Either that or my milk turned all watery and weird overnight. That whole hunger thing, combined with his obsession with big people food, got us to break out the rice cereal. We got the ok from our pediatrician (because we are first-time parents, and I think that's what first-timers usually do before making big life changing decisions like this one) and then the other night we mixed up a batch and he went to town. I think little Noah was surprised. On a side note, I have this habit of letting him lick on my spoon during those meals when he's on my lap, after he starts to get fussy. He never gets much from those spoon licks, mostly just something to wake up his little tastebuds and keep him from crying. So on our first rice cereal night when we let him have the spoon, with more than crumbs on it, and then gave it to him again and again--wow. He was pretty thrilled. For the record, he is not sleeping through the night again yet, but I guess his happiness from his new little treat is worth it.