First Foods

Adley began the adventure of experimenting with solid foods this month. We started her with just basic rice cereal since Jaden and Cody had been successful with that. Adley opened her mouth happily and, although she was quite messy, seemed to enjoy this first food experience.

On food trial day #1, just Mommy and Daddy did the feeding, but Jaden and Cody were amazing encouragers. They loved witnessing the process for Adley and enjoyed hearing stories about their own first solid food days.

 On Adley's second day of trying solid foods, we let her big brothers join in the process. It was quite amusing watching the boys try to get the spoon in Adley's mouth.

I also got a kick out of watching Cody and Jaden's own mouths open and close along with Adley's.

These two big brothers were SO proud to feed their little sister! They offered many words of praise to Adley as she successfully ate again on Day 2.

After the initial few days of rice cereal, we branched out into other varieties of fruit and vegetable purees-- butternut and acorn squash, banana, apple, sweet potato, avocado, and peas. Adley's typical pattern has been to grimace at the first few bites of any food, push the food around with her tongue, but then eventually settles into eating. She still spits out more than she swallows on any given bite, but she's slowly making progress. 

I've taken quite a few pictures of Adley eating so that I can show the boys Adley's reaction to new foods that she tries while they are at school. Jaden and Cody love guessing whether or not Adley will like a certain food and than determining her overall taste based on the photos.

Squash (butternut) -- so-so

(acorn) -- yum!

Sweet Potato -- so-so

Avocado-- no, thank you!

Oatmeal -- double YUM (Look how wide she opens her mouth!)

Adley's favorite so far!

Other top food choices include banana and apple, while pumpkin and peas are only so-so. Avocado has been the only food to be completely rejected. We're enjoying this new phase and are happy that Adley is a decent little eater so far.