Have I mentioned BD is eating real food?

Baby Doodle had his first real food on September 2, his dad's birthday. He had avocado. He didn't love it, but he didn't hate it either. The expressions he made while he mashed the very first pieces of food with his gums were literally priceless. If only he could tell us what was going through his head. Maybe something like, "Ooh, what is this? This consistency is not like a nipple or a pacifier. It has an odd taste. It's chunky. I don't like it. But I can't help mashing it with my gums and swallowing. I want more."

He has gone on to eat banana and homemade apple sauce made with apples we picked that morning. BD loves banana. And when I say loves I mean loves! When I take the spoon away from him to put more banana on it he whines and complains and squeezes the spoon tightly. I try to explain that I'm just taking it away so that I can put more banana on it, but he doesn't seem to understand.

He didn't love the applesauce. I think because cooking it burned off the natural sugars in the apples and the sauce was left a bit tart. So I gave him a peeled apple to suck on. He liked that, but it was too heavy for him to lift to his mouth. I held it to his mouth for him, and when I was tired doing that, he leaned over and put his mouth on the apple resting on the tray in front of him. It was pretty cute.
















Eating apple sauce.
















Eating avocado, his first food.

















Wanting to keep trying the avocado even though he was unsure about it.