Some Solid Success

What started out as a bad day concerning solid foods turned out to be a great day for them. So far, Andrina has eaten rice cereal and carrots. Today I decided that I would try bananas but I'd mix it in with Andrina's rice cereal to make the cereal more appealing to her since she was not loving it. Well, I was so excited this morning preparing her meal of cereal mixed with bananas and a small side of carrotts but was disappointed in the end. Andrina was just not in a great mood this morning. I don't think she was ready for anything except milk (which she did have 2 ounces of milk before I tried the solids). It was before her first nap of the day and she became very cranky when I tried to feed her the cereal with bananas. She appeared to like the taste of it but was just too cranky to deal with eating it. After all, she's only been eating solid food for a week now. And when I tried to feed her a bite of carrots, she started crying! She was not ready for solid food that early in the day. So I gave up and had to thow it out and console Andrina (and put her down for a nap too). I made a mental note to myself not to feed her solids until after her first nap of the day, for quite some time, like we had done before. But I was still surprised that she didn't want the cereal with bananas. I tried it and it was good for baby food, much better than cereal by itself. I thought babies were supposed to love bananas...

Well, I tried again tonight and waited until after Andrina's second nap of the day. And guess what? She loved the cereal with bananas! Not only did she open her mouth for the spoon but she even leaned into the spoon as I was bringing it towards her mouth! It was so adorable. She even made a few "mmm" noises. And she ate the entire bowl of it! So far she has not finished a whole bowl of cereal (and I don't force her to finish it either). After she ate half the bowl of cereal with bananas, I reluctantly gave her a spoonful of carrots. She made a face at first but did not turn away. She ate another bite of carrots too, willingly. So in the end, she ate her entire helpings of cereal with bananas and carrots that I prepared for her. She didn't love the carrots like the cereal with bananas but she continued to open her mouth up for them, even if a lot of it ended up on her bib. And her face. And her high chair tray. And her clothes. You get the idea. And after the solids she also had one ounce of milk too. Here's some pictures of our first GREAT solid food session:

Rice cereal tastes SO much better with bananas mixed into it!

Look how happy I am!

"Mmmm!"

Look Mom, I finished the whole bowl!

Hey, what's this? This isn't that yummy banana stuff...

But it's not too bad!
I'm still happy and eating it!

Time to play while Mommy gets to clean up all that food that got everywhere!