Thompson has been eating real food for a while now. And by eating I mean sloshing the food around his mouth hoping some of it actually gets down. And by real food I mean liquidy pureed stuff. Still, exciting news for a 6 month old. Well, it is exciting now.
Our first attempt at giving him solids was met with complete disinterest and boredom. He just was not into the whole rice cereal thing. I tried for a week to get him to like it, but he would never really eat it. He was taste it, then spit it right out. Or hold it in his cheeks then smile as it all came back out.
So we moved on to other foods, which he has liked approximately 1 million times better. He loves sweet potatoes and squash. He really loves sweet potatoes with cinnamon. He is a pro at eating his oatmeal. Green beans gave him the shivers (literally) whenever he ate them at first, but he is getting used to them now. He likes them the best mixed with white sweet potatoes though.
Since he was doing so well with his veggies and oatmeal, I thought I would introduce a little fruit as a treat for him. So I mixed in some mashed up banana with his oatmeal, and this is how he rewarded me:
Apparently bananas aren't really his thing, because he either spits them out or looks at me with the "why mom, why would you put this in my mouth?" look. He seems to tolerate them with a little sweet potatoes or oatmeal mixed in, but he really doesn't like them.
With the little guy starting to eat all this food, I have been on a bit of a baby food making kick of late. Because I would never feed my child food from a jar, and he will only be eating homemade organic food for his entire life. Just kidding. I am not crazy. I am just cheap. And those little overpriced jars of baby food are not. It is even easier and more inexpensive to make baby food than I realized, too. So now we have a freezer full of frozen little food cubes, and this is what dinner time looks like for Thompson.
Although we had a slow start with the rice cereal, Thompson loves eating now. He gets excited whenever I get him ready and put his bib on, and opens his mouth waiting for us to stick food in it.
He also is becoming more and more interested in what we are eating and drinking, and loves when we let him take sips of water from a cup. And much to my dismay, he has learned how fun it is to make a mess and play while eating. These activities include, but are not limited to, sucking on his hands while he has a mouthful of food, sucking on his feet while he has a mouthful of food, blowing bubbles while he has a mouthful of food, and talking up a storm with a mouthful of food. I would be mad at him if he wasn't so cute when he did all this.
On a completely unrelated note, I think I need to give my child a hair cut soon. How does one go about giving a 6 month old a hair cut?
Oh my. Let us pause and remember that every mom thinks her baby is the cutest, and even though I do, I also think yours is SUPER SUPER DUPER CUTE! Like, much more than others. You are welcome. In some pictures, I think, "Oh, he looks just like Melissa," and in others, just like Trevor. He is a darling mix of both of you.
ReplyDeleteI ask you not to judge when you come over and see baby food jars in my pantry.
Sweet potatoes are Isaac's favorite food, followed very closely by bananas. And the most dangerous of all is perhaps a sneeze while eating. That stuff SPRAYS.
See you on Friday (here's hoping)!