Yes we have no bananas

We started giving S solid foods this week

There’s something downright amazing about giving a baby his first bite of real food. Its kind of scary. You don’t know what their reaction will be. It is an awful lot of fun in the end though.

We decided to go very slow with it. He had a few teaspoons of mashed bananas mixed into expressed breast milk. I discovered that pumping manually is such a pain in the ass that I can’t keep doing it for every tiny meal (they only eat one teaspoon full at first). Anyway, I’m just too lazy for sterilizing all those little rubber rings and plastic parts that go with the breast pump. Instead for round two I mixed in some Evian water. It’s such minute amount anyway that I doubt it matters much (yeah, that's what they said about lead paint, right?).

S acts like he could care less about solids. He really digs all the colorful plastic spoons. We are trying to encourage him to feed himself as much as possible so gnawing on spoons has been his favorite past time for awhile here. I’m not so sure he’s impressed with the fact that something sticky keeps getting on his spoon, over and over. He spends most of the time trying to flick it off onto the cat.

Anyway, as you can see, we had more fun starring as “the parents” in his first food photos than he had eating it.