Feed My Cheeks!

Some of these pictures go back to late March, but you don't get cheeks like Wren's without feeding them well and often!
After her 4 month check-up, the doctor said she was ready to start solids. We decided to wait another couple weeks and started her on rice cereal. I found a recipe for homemade organic rice cereal and we got her started on that, then followed with organic homemade oatmeal about a week later.

At first she didn't know what the heck to do. She was hungry, and this girl is serious about her food! So she was getting impatient. She didn't like the texture so much, but all it took was for us to sign "milk" to her for her to realize that she was supposed to swallow it!
 

Daddy gave it a shot:

And Grammy & Papa were over for dinner, so Grammy gave it a shot: 

After a couple days, she thought she was pro enough to take over herself!

A few weeks later, we got started on more foods, beginning with avocado. She liked it pretty well, but I learned quickly that she liked it better when I mixed it with her rice. I think it was a little tart for her.

Here are a couple videos from avocados: 

Next, we moved onto sweet potatoes, yummm!

She loves them!

Messy Face! 

Then squash:

And when we were in Boston, Wren's cousin, Alex, let her borrow his chair while she tried green beans: 

We are currently doing carrots and will be making peas for this week. We do make all of her babyfood, except the doctor said not to make carrots because you can't regulate the nitrate levels. So turnips, beets, carrots, spinach, greens...all of those can't be made from home. And the green beans above, we bought because it was easier for traveling. Basically, we make every attempt to do organic homemade whenever possible but there are certain times when it just doesn't work and we're okay with that! Also, her doctor said to start her on veggies so that she didn't think all food was sweet like fruits tend to be. So far, she hasn't hated anything we've given her...she's got cheeks to maintain, after all!!