on solids now

At age 5 months and one week, we decided to put Ela onto solids...although there isn't much 'solid' about rice cereal - looks more like glue paste or gruel! She wasn't too sure at first, but one week on and she's lapping it up. No problems with acccepting the spoon (unlike when we introduced the bottle).
She loves her apple puree too and today Nannie introduced her to veggies. However more pumpkin ended up on Nannie and on Ela's clothes than in her mouth! Tomorrow we'll try carrots (but not the one's I forgot about, whilst writing this and are burned to the bottom of the pan).
We're hoping that the introduction of real food will help her sleep better at night because this week she's suddenly decided that it may be fun to wake at 4am and sometimes have a play at midnight too. There was a lot of grunting and nostril snorting going on, so we hope it was just a bit of constipation and all will get back to normal real soon.