Feeding Liam has never been an easy thing–so I’m not entirely sure why I thought that he’d take to eating solids easily. He didn’t. For about a month we’d been trying to feed him rice cereal. The result of this was pursed lips and screaming (until I tried to put the spoon close to his open mouth, he realized what was happening, and promptly pursed his lips again). We have video, but uploading that is a pain so this picture will have to suffice:
Thankfully–after more than a month of trying (and switching from rice cereal to sweet potatoes) we had success (please pardon the red eye):
The first day we tried sweet potatoes he tolerated them (which was a vast improvement over rice cereal) and finished 1/3 of a container. The second day he wasn’t so sure when we started out but by the end had finished an entire container and was popping his mouth open like a baby bird after each bite (and getting very angry when I didn’t open the new container fast enough). By the third day (which is when I took the picture above) he ate an entire container without any hesitation and learned how to spit sweet potatoes far enough to hit me with them. At first I was irritated that there was so much food everywhere. Then he laughed after each spit. I laughed with him. We’re in big trouble.
If you made it to the end of this post I’ll reward you with a link to the new SmugMug gallery:Â Here it is.
Happy 4th!