With her 4 month check up yesterday, the doctor gave the "go ahead" to start introducing more "solid food" to Shannon. This will be a slow process that starts with rice cereal mixed with formula and then introducing fruits and vegetables each week, continuing to rotate the old and new foods. By the time she is 6 months old she will have added 8 new "dishes" to her diet! Also by 6 months, solids will be a part of her feeding routine for 2 "meals" a day.
The cereal with formula starts very watery and almost not really solid at all. Todd and I were pleasantly surprised that she took to it right away. Of course, she made the funniest faces and was looking at us as if to say "what is this this stuff, but I think it like it??!!" as I'm sure all babies do.
She kept trying to hold to spoon, which hopefully is a good indicator that she will enjoy feeding herself sooner than later! Whenever I would "scoop" the excess cereal from her chin, she would close her eyes and make this weird face as if I were wiping her face- it was just so cute!
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