Bring on the solid food! Olivia stepped into the world of food this weekend (more than the little tastes that Daddy has been giving her for the last month or so). We are officially starting her on solids. Since little Miss Boo has shown a fairly sensitive tummy thus far in her life, we are taking it slowly to start. The common wisdom is to buy "special yum yum good baby rice cereal", processed with love (?) in a huge factory, packed with nutritious preservatives, and fortified with the nutrients that are removed in the processing. Ummmmm, no. Not for our baby! Remember, there is an awfully good chance that she was conceived in Hell's Backbone Grill (sorry Blake and Jen!! :)!!The picture above is from Saturday night. We made our own rice cereal with fair trade organic jasmine rice, bought from the awesome Willy St. Co-op bulk section, cooked it, ran it through the food mill, and added some breast milk. Lee and I both agree that it was pretty bland, and so did Olivia! She wanted nothing to do with it when we tried to spoon feed her, so after consulting our books, we decided to let her try to feed herself. Well, you can see the results were adorable and hilarious, but I wouldn't say "successful"! The milled jasmine rice was the coolest sticky mass of starch, it has definite possibilities for some creative kitchen use.
Sunday night (after a great day at the Franparents!), Momma went to her Yoga class and got her tushy kicked, and Daddy decided to try cooking the last of our brown rice and see how it milled down. I could tell right away that this was going to work better. With the addition of some "boob juice" (a term borrowed from Ryan, heh heh) we had a nice consistency, and I gotta say, it was really pretty good stuff! Nice and sweet, a little bit nutty.
Olivia looked at me with a bit of suspicion as I moved the spoon to her face, so I had some, and told just how yummy it was. She opened her mouth, deciding to give it another shot, gave her usual look of concern, smooshed it around in her mouth, and swallowed! She actually seemed to like it! I got her laughing with some antics, and she continued to eat what I offered her, probably a couple tea spoons or so! She has always had a very sensitive gag reflex, and that is proving to be a bit of a challenge. She gagged and coughed, and had a mini melt down, and that was it for solid food for the night. She finished off her bottle, and hit the sack!
Oh, by the way, thanks again Jane, for the "Snug Tub Deluxe"!! It makes bath time much easier, and as Olivia starts feeding herself, that will be very convenient!
And one more aside, we have yet to see (er, smell) a real solid food poop, but it is definately looming large in our near future! Oh how I will miss the benign breast milk only poops of yore!
Here is a video of Saturday night dinner time escapades, sorry there is no sound. ENJOY!!
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