Sweet Potato

At Harper's four-month check up with the pediatrician, we were given the green light to start solid foods.  First on the list: orange veggies, followed by rice cereal and then green veggies (much to Dallin's chagrin, meat will have to wait until after her six-month appointment).  We were pretty excited to see what Harper thought of "real" food, but it wasn't until a couple of weeks ago that we finally pulled it together to get her high chair set up (what a grown up girl--using a high chair!) and find out.


We started with sweet potatoes (yum!), figuring that a sweeter flavor might be a good place to begin.  Of course, we forgot to put a bib on her the first time around, and her white onesie will probably never be the same.  But other than that, our little sweet potato did quite well!

Baby girl isn't so sure what to make of this whole "spoon" concept...

Our cutie pie, trying to figure out how to eat from the spoon.

Very focused

Sweet potatoes are yummy--and messy!

"Helping" Daddy with the spoon

What, dinner is over?!

Eating solids is hard work!

It is the cutest and funniest thing to watch Harper eating from a spoon.  Obviously, up to this point, she only has experience sucking--be it nursing, taking a bottle, or sucking on her pacifier.  Of course, sucking isn't quite as effective from a spoon so she has been working hard to figure it all out.

Harper has also been trying to "help" feed herself; she simply can't leave her hands out of the equation.  Whether it is helping Daddy with the spoon, or sticking her hands in her mouth along with the spoon, our sweet girl continues to love love love using her hands.  We decided to let her try out the spoon on her own, but unfortunately she put it a little too far in her mouth, totally gagged--and scared herself, poor little thing.  But mostly she just adds to the mess, which is fun and irresistibly cute to watch.