Lucky Girl

Last Saturday, on Wren's 5 month birthday, we introduced her to solid food for the first time. Given it was St Patty's day, and since avocado was Max's 1st solid food and Otto (as Christy so wittingly observed) loved saying "avocotto," I decided the best first food for Wren would be avocado too.

Lucky girl! At least I thought so given they are one of my favorite foods.

I was hoping for a nice, peaceful and orderly environment to introduce Wren to food. But quickly decided that she'd likely be in high school before our house feels like that again. So, other than the initial planning that went into selecting Wren's first food, there was very limited "set up" (boy, was there set up for Max's first feeding...lights, camera, video, clutter cleared, etc). We just dove right in and gave it a try.

Ha! That was not a picture of Wren's first bite, but I think it was the most animated one we captured.

For Wren's first feeding, she basically just gummed the avocado and licked her lips a lot. She did not take any real bites.

Max was really excited to help out and take a turn feeding her. Otto was quick to follow.

A day later Auntie Cristy got a chance to feed Wren, too. This time Wren wanted full control of the spoon. While she was still unsure of the food, she realized that the food was the way to get to chew on the spoon.

One week later and she's still working on getting the hang of taking a bite and swallowing. We've moved from one green food to another and introduced her to peas mid-week. I'm pretty sure once I give her sweet fruits instead of just veggies she'll "suddenly" know how to eat...but I'm a little stubborn and would like to stick to veggies for a bit longer. As if this will have any impact on her desire to eat veggies when she's a toddler...