Food Glorious Food!

As it is officially Reed's 6mos bday today, he has been venturing into the realm of food!  Glorious food!  We started him with a bit of rice cereal, just because it's easy - easy on the digestion system and easy to make.  Plus they are fortified with iron (so it didn't make sense to make my own) and this is the one concern at 6 months, their iron stores are low, so pick foods rich in iron.  The ones where you just add breastmilk, are good, nothing more than rice (and iron).  The ones where you only add water are convenient but they also contain milk products, which didn't make sense to me, since you aren't supposed to introduce cow's milk until way later.... our midwife told us 2 years, although Alberta Health says 9months - 12months.

In the first three days of sampling, he let us know that he knew what he was doing when it comes to chowing down.  Next stop on the food train, was the irrestible sweet potato (or is it yam?) and boy that was way better than boring cereal!  He has been gobbling it down, we actually have to stop as he would far exceed the recommended 1 tbsp per feeding in the first attempts of a food. 

Some friends (thanks Paula and Jeff!) have lent us their baby bullet, and I've been bulleting away!  Next is carrots, then peas or zucchini. 

Here is his first try at cereal, he immediately goes for the bowl (probably more because it's bright orange!) and takes control of the spoon (we have been letting him play with his spoon for a while now in preparation).

I had to upload in two parts... by the end, of course the cereal was everywhere, because we just gave him the bowl and spoon and left him to his own devices...