Solids Shmolids.

I'm happy to report that Jack has finally shown a little bit of interest in solids...  I had attempted giving him rice cereal a few weeks ago, but he showed no interest.  I tried again on his 6 month birthday and he just showed total disgust.  I then tried baby oatmeal, where he proceeded to roll it around on his tongue and spit it out.  No matter who you ask, everyone (doctors included!!) seems to have a different opinion on what type of food is best to start with, what age, what quantity, what time of day, etc.  I've been trying to just follow J's lead but at the same time, wanting him to like food so we can get going on the process already!  The general rule is that you introduce 1 food for 3 days before trying a new one...this could take a LONG time.  I haven't felt "stressed out" about it but I have admittedly been anxious about it.  This is another one of the things I wanted to document so several months from now when J is eating everything under the sun I can remember that we had a rocky start with this too.  When more of my friends are going through this with their first babies, I can look back and say - oh yeah we had a tough time in the beginning with that too!  But, sust like anything else in life, things only seem important when you're going through them yourself ;)  Once you're through it and moved on from it, it seems trivial! 

On Friday I went to target and bought baby food, all different kinds.  Baby food is so cheap, who knew?!  When I got home from picking J up from school, we sat in the kitchen and I took out the baby apples and we got down to business.  He seemed much more interested in the apples than he was in either the cereal or oatmeal.  He made a handful of funny faces and noises while smacking/sucking his lips and I was very entertained.  He had apples Friday, Saturday & Sunday and it seems like we may be making progress.  I tried mixing in oatmeal with the apples last night and I think he outsmarted me by sucking in the apples and spitting out the oats...  Tonight we're going to try sweet potatoes, but we'll keep on trying until he gets the hang of it - just like everything else that you do for the first time with a baby :)  He also seemed to really get the hang of the "Mum Mums" last night and made a pretty decent mess of himself, but at least he wasn't just banging it on the tray of his high chair over and over and over like he did on Friday... this kid cracks me up!