Food

I think Kaylynn has finally figured out what to do with the food on the spoon. It's taken a while, but being persistent pays off. She will now open her mouth to accept the food instead of plastering her tongue to the roof of her mouth and giving us that "Mommy this is awful" face. Today it even looked like she was chewing, not that there was anything to actually chew. She does spit a lot of it back out, but based on the spit up I saw tonight, she's definitely swallowing the food.

We began with rice cereal on Mother's Day, so right at 5 months. Since then, we've tried sweet potatoes, green beans, green peas, and zucchini. We have yellow squash pureed and frozen, just ready to eat. The best part is that the green beans, zucchini, and yellow squash were all home grown! Mom and Dad have a monster garden going on and we were lucky enough to get to enjoy a lot of their produce Memorial Day weekend.

I'm making all her food, which is a whole lot easier than I thought it would be. I was afraid that I'd start, then end up stopping because it got to be too much, but seriously, steaming and pureeing takes no time at all! It's comforting to know that nothing is going in her food that I didn't put in there. I've stuck with veggies so far, just because I've read that a lot of babies don't like many vegetables once they've tried the sweet fruits, so that's my logic. It might be wrong logic, but it's working fine for us. She's liked everything so far, now that she knows how to eat it. We got to the doctor next week, so we'll find out the specifics on more things we can try and exactly what to avoid (besides the obvious ones.)

Off the topic - tomorrow is the last day of school! I can't wait to spend all summer with my sweet girl!