She might not have been thinking “finally”, but it’s what mom was thinking this last week when we started Maya on solid foods. We’ve been anxious to get her going because we’ve really been getting the feeling that she needs a little more to eat. So she got her first taste of “real” food, yummy rice cereal. Only she doesn’t seem to think it’s so yummy!
I wouldn’t say she totally hates it, but she definitely doesn’t love it either. Although I think time will really tell. She’s still kind of figuring out what the heck she should be doing with this spoon that keeps coming at her face. Most of the cereal ends up on her bib or back on the spoon. Sometime she decides she’ll clamp her mouth shut to make it more fun for us. But sometimes she opens right up.
The family member most excited about Maya’s transition to solid foods is Bailey. They’ve been becoming best of friends lately: she reaches her hand out for kisses whenever he’s around. The first time we fed Maya cereal, Bailey was lingering around the high chair making eyes at Maya. She leaned right over the edge toward him, and he licked her face clean. They both loved it. We have a feeling Bailey will love it even more when she figures out how to throw the food down to him.
We head back to the doctor in about another week, so then we’ll get to start trying some other foods out. I mean really, would you want to eat that rice cereal? Looks worse than Cream of Wheat to me!