Evelyn's Eatings

Evelyn has reached six months of age.  I had decided that I wanted to wait until then to introduce her to solid foods.  Since reaching this age a couple of weeks ago, she has tried a few different things.  Her very first food was some rice cereal.  She didn't seem very impressed with it, and wouldn't open her mouth for more. 

The four days that I was giving her the rice cereal, she was extra irritable and fussy.  I don't know if it was giving her gas or what the problem was, but I decided to switch and start giving her an egg yolk.  I didn't get a picture of it, but she really liked it.  She actually opened her mouth and wanted to eat more.  Her fussiness stopped as soon as she stopped eating the rice cereal, so I think there was a connection.

After that, I switched to fruits in the morning for breakfast.  The first one was pears. She didn't know what was coming.  All she knew was that he had this fun thing around her neck and was sitting on the couch with mommy.

She didn't open her mouth because she wasn't really sure what was going on.

I think that pears must have a different texture, or else she just wasn't used to it.  But at any rate, this is the first face I got:

And this was the next:

She kept gagging on the food as I would spoon it into her mouth.  Needless to say, it took four mornings for her to finish that first jar of pears.  Next we switched over to apples.  She seemed to like those better and ate that jar in two days.  Because she was liking the apples, I decided to put a couple of chunks in her mesh feeder.

This feeder is such a neat idea for babies.  She can hold onto it herself, and chew on/suck on whatever I put inside.  The best part is though, that she can't get any chunks out because she's just gnawing on the mesh part and everything gets strained through it.

A few days later I was shelling a bunch of peas from my mother-in-law's garden and she started to get whiny.  I handed her a pea pod and she had lots of fun sucking on it. 

A few days later I was cutting up beans with my mom and decided to hand her a bean to suck on.  The only problem is that her top teeth are coming in and she managed to bite a chunk of the bean off.  She started choking on it and mom and I were on the verge of doing the heimlich on her when she swallowed it.  A couple of days later I found it in her diaper. :D 

We are continuing on our journey of introducing new fruits and vegetables every 4-5 days and enjoying her reactions to each one.  Sweet potatoes are on the menu for today with peas and beans to follow.