Last night Aly graduated to “Real Food”. She will be 6 months old on Friday and has been eating rice and oatmeal cereal for over 2 months now (she hates the rice cereal not that I blame her). When ever anyone has food near her she will stare at them and if she gets the chance she will try to grab it and shove it in her mouth. She has almost succeeded more then once. So we decided to let her try”Real Food”. I spent a lot of time trying to decide what to start her with. Although it isn’t common practice I decided to skip the puree and let her try whole foods. I decided to start with veggies. Meats are harder to digest and fruit has a lot of sugar. Eventually I decided on broccoli. I choose it because it can be boiled to soften it, doesn’t have to strong a taste, has a lot of vitamins and also it is easy for little hands to hold. At first she didn’t seem to know what to make of it. She knew it went in her mouth but she was put off by the texture. But she kept at it and had a great time squishing it between her fingers. Tonight she ate it up. I was amazed at how much of it she ate. She is definitely one of the family. She is going to be a big eater just like her brothers.
Playing with the broccoli.
Not liking the broccoli.
Having fun.