The 4-month mark is about when we decided to start Evan on some solid foods. He was showing all the signs of being ready, so we figured we'd give it a shot. We had decided that I was going to try my hand at making most of Evan's baby food for him. We first tried the traditional rice cereal, and he absolutely hated it. This happy, bubbly little baby turned into a screaming, rice-spitting little bugger. He tolerated a few spoonfuls, and then he was done. I thought maybe he would like the store-bought rice cereal better, so we tried that, but to no avail. The next choice was oatmeal. He seemed to tolerate that a little better than the rice, but still only swallowed about 1/3 of what I was giving him. Most of it came flying back out at me.
Finally, as a last resort, I started mixing in some fruit with the cereal. Much to my relief, he actually ate his cereal!!! So far, he loves apples, pears and bananas, and will eat either rice or oatmeal as long as one of these fruits is mixed in. We're going to work on peaches next. Then we'll move on to the veggies. I'm a little nervous because my little pumpkin seems to have a sweet tooth.
Owen has always been a great eater. He was never picky, and I can honestly say, I don't think that there is anything this child won't eat. I think we're going to have a picky eater on our hands with this little munchkin.
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