First eats

We have been anticipating Hannah's first foray into the world of food beyond breastmilk. She seemed like a budding foody, grabbing at everything that we ate in front of her (which made it seem as though we were torturing the little one). So at her last check-up Heidi got the okay to give Hannah food. We decided to start with the usual: rice cereal.

If you haven't seen it, rice cereal is basically gruel. I didn't think it looked very appetizing, and to our surprise, Hannah agreed. We gave her the first bite and it just made her grimace; she looked like she was going to be sick. This lack of eventfulness is not what I was expecting. I was thinking there would be food everywhere, that Hannah would be flailing her arms in joyful exuberance at getting something new or spitting it up and thrashing until the table was covered with the goop. The event did have an interesting quirk, though. Hannah looked tortured, plowing through the tiny amount of cereal that made it into her mouth, only until we presented her with a new spoonful. She would grab this new spoonful with renewed zeal, shoving it into her mouth, then grimacing. Here is the sequence in pictures.

"Yay! Food!"

"Yuck! Food!"

"Yay! Food!"

"We've been here before!"

The only mess was when Hannah knocked the spoonful away from her mouth and over her face.


It was cause for reflection.

We are starting to wonder if Hannah has a bit of red in her hair; the lighting here makes it look much more red than normal. We both have redheads in our extended families, so it wouldn't be too surprising.

Sometime within the next couple of days we will be trying out avocado. Surely that will provide some more excitement.