Eating Time

Isaac has begun eating solid foods in the last month. I decided to try my hand at making my own baby food and so far it's gone well. We started with sweet potatoes...yuck! Isaac likes them pretty well and he'd better get his fill now because he will never see them on the table with our meals! Here are a few pictures of his first time eating sweet potatoes.

Here comes the 1st bite!

Another bite...notice mommy is now holding Isaac's hands!

The finished product! Obviously mommy didn't hold the hands well enough!

Next we went on to butternut squash...again yuck! Isaac seems to like these even better but again, I'm not making them when he starts eating table food. Feeding is quite the process. Isaac likes to grab the spoon, clap his hands when the spoon is almost to his mouth, and play in the bowl itself. I also use paper bibs and he likes to chew on those in the middle of feeding. He still likes to blow bubbles in his food too.

We will be trying our first fruit in the next few days. I made pears so we will see how he does. At least he has a chance of eating those again in his life!

We've started giving him a sippy cup. He doesn't understand it's for drinking and not chewing but he does a really good job of holding on to it. Someday he will get the right idea and drink from it but for now I give him the cup and 5 minutes later give him a bottle with a little water to drink.

Isaac loves to sit at the table with us during dinner. As long as he's got something to play with, he's pretty content. Here's a picture of him just sitting at the table with us.