We have Sophie the giraffe too. I'm probably going to hell for thinking this, but erm - does anyone else think she smelled a bit like condoms when new?
When it comes to the whole solids thing, I like the 'just for fun until they're one' idea. I got much, much too wound-up and worried about DS1's lack of interest in solids - he seemed very keen at first, and then refused to eat much of anything for months so I just threw out oceans of puree. This time around, I'm going to wait until DS 2 is actually grabbing at food and stuffing it into his mouth.
I made an Easter bonnet for DS 1 last year - I made a Welsh-style bonnet from cardboard, and let DS 1 paint it all over with yellow, blue and green paint. I then put yellow ribbons on the bottom so it tied under his neck, and then we made daffodils from tissue paper and put them all around the brim so they surrounded his face. (He was terribly pleased with himself.) We then won first prize because apparently our bonnet was the only one which looked as if the child had participated in making it.
I haven't done it at all this year, because lovingly coaxing your tot into making tissue-paper daffodils appears to be something that you do when you only have ONE child.
Naps - we are all over the place. Ideally, he should go down for a nap two hours after he wakes up, and have two long naps and one short nap a day. Unfortunately, he has different ideas and likes to have NO naps and then turn into a sad little wreck by mid-afternoon. He is also waking to feed all night long. I don't know where my good-sleeping baby went - the four-month sleep regression seems to have stuck, and he's five months tomorrow.