Day 65 (3/6/11)

As Liam goes into the world of solid food, we're combining two approaches. He's getting standard purees, the kind you eat off a spoon, and he's getting sticks of food so he can feed himself. The first style is extremely common, almost everyone on the street feeds their child in this manner. The second, not so much. Its known in the babyworld as Baby Led Weaning or BLW. Basically the child is given stalks of solid food (soft foods obviously like banana, avocado or steamed sweet potato) and they control how much they eat. Its very "hands on" (see what I did there) and very messy, but it allows the child to explore their food. Feel the texture, squish it in their fingers, play with it, all sorts of fun things. For more info on BLW, check out the link above.

You want me to do what with this stuff?

Oh, I'm supposed to eat it!

Day 26 (1/26/11)

We decided to try something new for lunch, other then just plain ol Momma Milk: Sweet Potatoes! While he certainly made some faces while trying it out, he really liked them and kept trying to helping me feed him by shoving the spoon into his mouth!

Day 21 (1/21/11)

Liam had his first food (for the second time) tonight. Guacamole. Yup, thats right; my little Irish boy had Mexican as his first (non-mom) meal! He absolutely loved it. We fed him off our fingers, as you can see from the picture, and he was so excited that he'd yank our hand into his mouth with so much force I was scared he'd hurt himself! Pretty soon we're going to introduce cereal to him, the timing is dependent on when we actually remember to pick it up while we're at the store. When he's ready, his pedi wants us to give him organic brown rice cereal because it is the least likely to cause an allergic reaction. Looks like we'll be picking that up soon, because I think our baby boy is ready!

Please excuse the quality of the picture, the camera was on the wrong setting for the lighting we had going on in the living room!

Happy 23 weeks Liam Michael!