Henry and The Rice Cereal

Thursday, August 5th, 2010 | Henry

Having turned 4 months old (and having been termed “slender”(?)) by his doctor, Henry has now begun the road to solid foods, starting with rice cereal. Here’s our “slender” boy looking cute and clean…

Henry - Clean and Cute

And here’s what he looked like after a few spoonfuls of rice cereal:

Is there something on my chin?

The goal of these first few meals is mostly to get the baby used to eating from a spoon and to taste the new food. Success can generally be measured by whether or not more cereal makes it into the baby’s mouth than is splattered in the surrounding area. As you can see from the picture below, we are not at that stage quite yet:

More on the bib than in the boy

Hence, the first few feedings are followed by a nice warm one of these:

And now it's bath time...

Since Henry’s mama has been heretofore his only source of meals, this is an exciting stage for me. Perhaps soon I can start to eat a little more dairy, chocolate and then a gin and tonic (or two!) every once in a while. And since Henry has been refusing a bottle for the past few months, this gives Mike another option if Henry gets hungry and I ever get to leave the house – it’s a win-win situation. In a few weeks we can start on pureed vegetables and have a whole battery of colorful foods to splatter all over Henry and anything within four feet. I’ll post more pictures of that when that day comes…