Time to Eat!

Keira reached another big milestone in her young life today--solid food! She will be 6-months-old on Tuesday (6/15), so we decided to finally take the plunge and introduce her to solids. She has actually been trying to lunge toward our food since she was about 4-months-old, but we've been holding her off, mostly just to give her little tummy more time to develop in preparation to receive solid foods.

Keira's first solid meal--rice cereal! We were super excited to give her the rice cereal, but once she started eating it, she kind of had a blank look on her face like, "This is what I've been waiting for??" We'll keep going with the rice cereal, and then next up on the menu: avocado! We'll see how she likes it!

Enjoy the pics below:

Yay! I love rice cereal!

(Well, not really, but I know how to smile at the camera)

Messy face

Hmm...not sure if she actually swallowed any of it!

Here's some video of her eating...this is the second round of introducing the rice cereal (Noah recorded the very first bites on his fancy new camera that records in HD and the footage doesn't easily transfer to the blog).

She was definitely willing to open her mouth for the spoon, but once the cereal got in her mouth, she wasn't quite sure what to do. She didn't actively try to spit it out, but she would move her tongue around and inevitably, the blob of cereal would fall out of her mouth. :)





The second big milestone of the day was introducing Keira to her first "sippy cup." One of the things I was doing to tide her over during mealtimes while she sat at the table with us in her booster chair (besides give her toys) was giving her sips of water from an open cup. She didn't really know how to drink the water (although she tried!) and would sometimes try to breathe it in, which resulted in lots of coughing and sputtering. Thankfully, the sippy cup will eliminate this problem and she can begin to drink water like a big girl!

I showed her how to hold the handles, but she needed help to tip the cup up to drink.

Here she is having fun biting on the spout.

Such a big girl!