Six months and starting solids

Six months old last week... the time has flown by!

My little darling started eating solids with limited success. First off we tried a baked sweet potato. That went ok. The rice cereal was a huge disappointment. First day, he would push it out of his mouth and let it dribble down his chin. Then he remembered he can blow raspberries. N had a great time blowing it back out, mostly all over me. After 2 tries of that, we gave up. Then he caught me eating watermelon and thought that might be good. He gummed his way through a few small pieces, mostly getting the juice.

This weekend we went to visit his aunt, who gave him a pickle. That was even better than the watermelon! (not really on any first food lists, but it didn't seem to bother him - at least it was home made).

Today we tried a steamed pear. Again, back to blowing raspberries. We'll try that for one more day and then move on to a new vegetable.

Looks like it's time to move the high chair off the hard wood floor and onto the kitchen tile if the raspberry blowing keeps up. That and I need to start wearing a bib.