Solids

Guess who's been eating more than just her bib lately?

Phaedra started eating solids about a week and a half ago. I was a bad mommy and didn't get pictures the very first time. She really seems to like rice cereal. At first, learning to swallow was rather interesting. She would put her mouth around the spoon and blow a raspberry on the spoon. It was really messy but awfully cute! Then, she would get so excited about the spoon coming to her mouth that she would dive for it, shaking her head back and forth with excitement as she neared her target. This made it more difficult for me to hit my target, which also made things rather messy but awfully cute. She's getting better now. She still really chomps at the spoon, and she's swallowing almost all of it now.

This is so different from Eleanor who I offered solids when she was 4 months old, but it took until she was 6 months old for it to really catch on. She wasn't interested in it for a long time, and it was hard to convince her to open her mouth.

This is her face after a very small spoonful of bananas. She not bananas about bananas. Every time I offer them to her, she still is happy to accept the spoon. Then, as soon as she tastes it, she grimaces as if she's going to cry and looks at me as if I betrayed her. They say you have to offer something up to 10(?) times before a child might decide they like it. I just don't know if bananas are worth subjecting her to this treatment again and again.

Below is a video of the banana reaction. Sorry my hand gets in the way, but I couldn't hold the camera and feed her.