I suspect the frequency of posts will greatly decrease in the coming months (years?) but I have 7 months of baby life to catch up on, so I figure a few more thrown in at the beginning won't hurt.
Sarah is her daddy's daughter when it comes to eating. She got off to a little bit of a late start, losing weight for the first couple weeks and all, but since then she's been a champ! Anytime a bottle comes near her mouth she makes this cute little fish mouth face like she's drinking it already. However, the girl hates water. Even water spiked with pear juice to make it nice and sweet, no interest in in. If it even makes it in her mouth (because sometimes I swear she smells it coming... even though water has no smell?) she'll bat it away until you put it down. We've got to work on this at some point, but baby steps.
Solid food has been a fun game to play! I'm making all of her food thus far - I feel it's something that I can give her if I have to leave her to work every day, and so far it's been pretty easy - big steaming sessions on the weekends and lots of ice cube sized food pieces to serve during the week. There is a video on facebook of our first try of solid food - sweet potatoes, but since then we've had quite an expanded pallate - sweet potatoes, zucchini, green beans, peas, apples, pears, bananas at home and avocado, papaya and fabulous fruits at daycare. So far this baby has yet to see something on a spoon that she doesn't want to eat.
Today we explored the realm of hard food with cheerios. Sarah had a grand total of four (not four scoops, or four cups, four) but it took almost 15 minutes to have her try to get them in her mouth,then drop then, get them in her mouth, drop them, have me feed her, have her gum it since she has only 1 tooth, then swallow. The only ones we had in the house were multigrain, but some of the faces she made were priceless. We might try cheerios again tomorrow, this time with video camera in hand.
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