Adventures in Eating

It is has been a little over a week since we started Colin on solid foods. We have been doing a very slow approach. We started off with avocados. The first day went well, he LOVED them... but the next couple of days he wasn't interested so I didn't force it. The next food was sweet potatoes. He still wasn't all that into it so I started wondering if I had rushed into it. Then at the end of this week we did carrots, but I didn't make the carrots, it was gerber carrots. He LOVED them... and that was when I noticed they were significantly thinner than the food that I had made.

So I thinned out my sweet potatoes and he liked them much better. I've yet to retry the avocados thinned out, but I will this week. This food thing has really worked out great because on Saturday Ryan was having a terrible time giving Colin a bottle, as usual (I guess he screamed for an hour or two) when Ryan called and asked if he could give him some sweet potatoes. I said sure and  man that kid ate a TON of them! I guess he was hungry. But ever since then he has been eating much better! Lol 

I definitely don't force it. If he isn't into it, I put it away. This morning I tried feeding him and he wasn't having it, so we put it away, but at lunch time he kept smacking his lips when we were eating so I gave him some of my avocado and he gulped it down!  

This week we are going to continue with sweet potatoes (because I have them in the fridge :) ) and add bananas and squash.

I am going to try to make as much of the food as I can, but I am not opposed to buying it. I was looking at it in the store and found some, like the carrots I bought, that just had carrots and water as the ingredients and nothing else. I am going to try to make the food during my weekend and then refrigerate or freeze it for the week. I already did the bananas today for the week :)

Here are some fun pictures of his messy food faces! :)