Friday, October 8, 2010

First Solids!

We introduced solids on Tuesday night!! What a big boy Nathan is, can't believe it's already time for rice cereal!! We intoroduced cereal at 5 months, 1 week :) (Alex got his first at 5 months, 3 weeks). He wasn't sure about the first bite...

A few bites later, not quite sure yet, but warming up the idea...

Ok, mommy, I think I like this!!! Stop taking pictures, and feed me another bite!!
It's my big brother! I sure do love him!!
Alex helping too!
After the first bowl, Nathan wanted more!

It was such a hit!! I know rice cereal is really just introduced at first to help teach babies how to eat... so we're starting off easy and just doing cereal once/day right now around dinnertime. I've been mixing it with my milk so far, but started adding part water last night. It would be easiest just to put water with it eventually... pumping is such a pain! Alex never really liked his cereal and often wouldn't even eat any of it. We switched to oatmeal with Alex peretty soon after introducing it, and he'd SOMETIMES eat it if we mixed it with fruit. Looks like Nathan is going to be our little eater though if this is any indication! He just loves it and gets so excited when we put him in his highchair to eat! I think we'll wait another week or so at least before introducing anything else (maybe longer). I'm hoping to make my own baby food this time around. I know it's supposed to be healthier and of course, cheaper! I'm thinking on my next trip to the grocery store I may pick up a few things to start making and freezing some food, we'll see!

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