weaning cupcake

Mrs McMuffin returned to work a couple of weeks ago and I have taken over the daytime care of our two lovely children.  Boy, is it hard work.  Fortunately as time passes it seems to be getting a little bit easier.  However, Cupcake is determined to make things as difficult as possible for us.  We are trying to wean her onto solid food and formula during the day.  For her part, she has decided that she wants nothing to do with anything that we might want to put in her mouth.  She absolutely refuses to drink formula milk or to suck from a bottle.  I've tried several different kinds of milk and a couple of different bottles but all to no avail.  It gets better though because she absolutely refuses to eat anything that comes on a spoon.  The upshot is that she will only eat what she can feed herself.  As you can imagine this makes mealtimes a very lengthy and messy affair.  The good news is that she seems willing to eat practically anything.  For the last couple of weeks, Mrs McMuffin has had to return home from work at lunchtime to feed her, and it means that she has been going four or five hours between feeds.  Today, for the first time, she actually drank some water from a bottle which she seemed to enjoy.  It's hard not to become anxious for her, but she is doing really well and when I took her to the baby clinic last week she was on the 91 centile for weight and height.  We have made another giant baby by the looks of things.  The feeding stuff comes as such a surprise for us because we just assumed that she would take to the bottle and solids like Babycake did.  My memory, which may not be quite accurate, was that he took to the bottle immediately and began stuffing himself on lentils after only a couple of days of offering it to him.  He certainly has never looked back.  

She is very lovely though!