Houdini of Cuisine-i

It took about two and a half months of consistent fails, but we are now getting the hang of solids! The tough part now is when to fit it into our schedule, since it's a matter of cleaning up a rather messy baby in the end.

To date we've tried banana, avocado, sweet potato, carrot, apple and rice & oatmeal cereals. Apple is by far the easiest to get down - though no matter what, with each first bite of meal time Sadie makes this god-awful face, like we are feeding her sour patch kids.

The messiness comes from pure technique. I hold the spoon out toward her mouth, she grabs it with one (or two) hands and pulls it in. But her grasp is firmly on the food itself. I'm thinking it's about 2/3 digested, 1/3 everywhere else.

The day we took this picture we tossed her in the bathtub immediately after. About half way through the bath we noticed she had a runny nose -that was pure orange. It's a bear to get the leftovers out of those crazy nostrils!