Recent adventures

This week has been a busy one. Ally turned 6 months old on Wednesday and had her well-baby checkup on Thursday. She weighed in a 15 lbs 2 oz, which keeps her between the 25th and 50th percentile. She has now sampled rice cereal as well as bananas. She is not a big fan of the rice cereal, and we can't really blame her because the stuff is pretty bland. However, she seems to really enjoy bananas, although more ends up on her hands and face than in her mouth. The doctor said that we should introduce one new food per week in order to control for any potential food sensitivities or allergies. So this week she will continue to eat bananas. In the coming weeks, she will be sampling sweet potatoes, oatmeal, and applesauce (what I happened to buy at the grocery store tonight).

Today we had a Pittsboro Bach Society reading. I haven't written about PBS in a while because I haven't played with them since last November. We played the Bach E major violin concerto and the Bach Double (Bach concerto for two violins in D minor). These are two pieces that I have played multiple times, although probably not since I was in middle school! Our guest soloist was Brian Reagin, the concertmaster of the NC Symphony, and I think it was one of our best concerts yet.

This morning also brought another adventure, although one that we really could have done without. Ben suffered a scratched cornea, thanks to one of Ally's thumbnails. So at 10:30am, we took a little trip to the Chapel Hill Urgent Care clinic because Ben was in a very large amount of pain and really couldn't open his eye. He's doing a little better now, although he had to cancel his classes for tomorrow because he probably won't be able to see well enough to drive out to Elon. Luckily these things heal within a few days, so hopefully he'll be good as new by mid-week.