Anders Learning to Eat

Anders is 6 months old now and so it was time to add some solid food to his diet.  He was so excited and ready for it by the time we started!  He had started reaching for my food whenever I ate and he was also acting more hungry so I was ready to start him on some solid food too!  We started with plain rice cereal and he was a little unsure about that at first but after a day or so he started to really enjoy it.

We have now been feeding him solid food for about 3 weeks and we have introduced rice cereal, oatmeal cereal, zucchini squash and apples.  He loves zucchini and rice cereal and the apples seem to be growing on him but he is still a little unsure about oatmeal cereal, although he does like it more mixed in with the zucchini or apples and I can't say that I blame him.  It is so fun to see Anders growing and developing new skills.  Here are a few pictures of him at mealtime so you can see a few of the faces that he made at first.

This was the first time that Anders got solid food.  He was not really sure about it.

However, he didn't hate it and it seemed to grow on him.

 This is a couple weeks after we introduced food.  He is much more accepting of it now, although you can see he still spits a lot back out but that is normal and kind-of cute on a baby.

 He loves mealtimes now and gets mad if we miss one!  I love how excited he gets about his food now.

Anders also loves playing with the washcloth that I use to wipe his face at the end.

I love seeing Anders so happy!