Eating!

We first started giving Emma solids (rice cereal) at about 5 1/2 months, but we were not very consistent for the first couple weeks because we had Christmas parties to go to and finals and so much going on. These pics are from the first time. She did really well and seemed really interested.

Of course it was a little messy!

She liked to feed herself...

Emma has tried many new flavors, like carrots, peas, squash, green beans, applesauce, and peaches. She still makes funny faces with each new flavor. She is not always interested in eating solids, and she still favors nursing. We are working on figuring out timing and feeding her when she would be most interested. We are learning and getting better all the time. She is really good at blowing spit bubbles, and that can get interesting when she has a mouth full of cereal, it ends up all over! Actually, it usually ends up all over no matter what, whether she knocks it out of our hands, or graps the spoon and flings it. She also really likes to touch it, so she will touch the spoon full of food, or grab the bowl, and then of course food from her fingers ends up anywhere and everwhere, literally from her head to her toes. Fun times!