This Week's New "Solid" Food: Squish Squash I Was Taking a Bath!

I know the bottom picture is blurry but I had to include it because it's so happy and funny. She's got squash in her eyebrow and up her nose and quite pleased about it. It's funny how fast it dries and gets crusty and hard to get off. She doesn't like it when we try to wipe off the mess while she's still eating, but I try to tell her this is what mommies do.

So we're currenlty introducing one new "solid" food a week, and we're up to four now: Rice cereal (which looks like mashed potato flakes), oatmeal, carrots, and squash. We read to hold off on the applesauce and other sweet foods so that they won't get stuck on only sweets right away. So we're doing vegetables before fruits, and yellow vegetables before green. I can't wait to see the green poo when we start her on peas.

We've started feeding her the solid foods in this snazzy high chair from Jack and Mary and it's a lot easier than in the lap. But we still give her the bottle of milk in our laps. They say (the expert-y baby books) to start feeding baby during your mealtimes, but we're not ready for that yet. Crikey, for so long we've been trying to do just the opposite, get our own dinners before it's time to feed the baby so that we get to eat at all.