First Foods

As I mentioned, Toby started solids late. He had a few licks of banana mush at 6 months and some watery rice cereal but he turned up his nose after a few tries and refused to let me put the spoon in his mouth.
So I gave it a rest because he was still breastfeeding FREQUENTLY and didn't seem all the interested in solids anyway.
It was when he started taking an interest in bits of lint on the floor and began picking them up and putting them to his mouth and then looking at me quizzically, that I began to give him small dishes of Rice Puffs.

This stuff is great cause there is one ingredient. Brown rice. No salt, so sugar, no additives. Just toasted, puffed rice. It's not labeled as a baby food, but rather in the grown-up cereal section, along with Millet, Corn and Kamut Puffs. The millet is great as a cereal topper, but almost too small for a baby to pick up, and just ends up sticking to slobbery fingers. The corn and kamut puffs are too 'crunchy' for babies with no teeth and pose a major choking hazard. Plus they are two grains that are best left to introduce well after the first birthday.
Rice however, is awesome. This stuff melts in your mouth so there is VERY little risk of choking, and are big enough for a baby to grab, and small enough that they can eat.
Toby ate buckets of this.

Shortly after starting the cereal, I introduced well-cooked baby peas. I get the President's Choice frozen baby peas because they are less 'marble-like' than most other frozen peas I've seen. These are really tender and moosh well with just gums in the mouth.
Plus, grains + legumes = protein = Awesome.








When harvest season began in our garden, and Toby began to put together that things in the garden equal food, he got hit first taste of... green tomato... and dirt... At that point all I could do was take a picture, and then try to take the tomato away from him...

But he seemed very interested in feeding himself, and very interested in different textures and flavours.
Foreshadowing????
More to come!!