New Foods

Lilly has progressed from rice cereal to other foods. She's tackled oatmeal, which she likes a lot more than rice cereal. And she loves carrots, bananas, and sweet potatoes. She did enjoy peas, but she readily ate the orange veggies and yellow fruit up. Each get's all over her mouth, hands, clothes, and our hands and clothes, but she so enjoys it. The close up photo was taken Sunday during her 'lunch' of sweet potato and oatmeal. At her six month check up, Dr. G said we would want to move towards three meals a day with her. Right now it's a second breakfast and first lunch. But I bought a Beaba baby cooker, it steams meats, fruits and veggies and then it can also puree them. It's a small, ingenious appliance and its pretty cool, it's green! So I've been making the fruits and veggies, Regina suggested I let Lilly try the Gerber banana puree, and boy did she NOT like it! So we will stick with fresh bananas. I made a sweet potato puree and now I've got an apple steaming, so I can make an apple puree. I hope she likes it.

We've read that its best to start with either a cereal or vegetables as they can become accustomed to the sweet taste and not want eat anything that wasn't sweet. We asked Dr. G about this and she said pretty much there wasn't anything to it. Let her eat what she wants to eat and when she wants to eat. So not worrying about fruits before vegetables or vice versa. Here's hoping she likes apples. If not that, then we'll move onto something else, perhaps green beans.