Real food!...kind of.

We started you on solid foods 6 days ago. It went much better than I thought it would. Grandma and Grandpa Greenhalgh were here for your first bites so you had an audience watching you. We started you on rice cereal mixed with bananas. We've also done plain rice cereal, sweet potatoes, and sweet potatoes mixed with rice cereal. I've decided after 6 days of bananas and especially after introducing sweet potatoes a couple days ago, that you might not be a big banana fan yet. I'll try them again at some point, but we're going to try a couple other fruits too. I want you to like vegis so I'm not letting you have straight fruit until we have a vegi variety going good. (I'm not sure how true the vegi before fruit theory is, but we're kind of trying it.) I just add a tiny bit for a little sweet flavor. And as far as sweet potatoes. You love them! Right now our schedule is: milk, rice cereal/fruit, milk, milk, milk, vegi close to bed time, half or a quarter of your normal portion of milk just before bed. Depending on the events of the day and the length of your nap we sometimes skip one milk in the middle or do half before nap and half after. (I'm boring myself now, but I'm sure if you have a sibling in the future I'll want to look back and see how I started you on food.) We'll do breakfast and dinner with solids for now and when you're six months old we'll skip a milk and add lunch (more vegis). You're diaper in the morning is less wet than normal but I think its because we change you just before bed, after solids, and you're not drinking as much before you fall asleep because you're still full. That's the only change I've seen so far.

Every once in a while you swallow part of what is in your mouth and it pushes what you didn't swallow out. And sometimes you're so happy about the sweet potatoes that you smile when you get your first taste and it runs out the sides of your mouth, but for the most part it hasn't been too messy. You're great at opening when you see the spoon and if I pay attention, I can usually stop you before you add your fingers to a mouth full of food.

So far, so good!Here's a video of Grandma feeding you.