Peas & Carrots

What are your favorite veggies?! Peas and carrots have been the favs in the Stacy household lately! Stafford has been experimenting with baby food for the past month and it has been quite interesting and very MESSY to say the least!! We have had so much fun introducing him to new foods...fruits and veggies alike. Per his doctor's orders, we started out with rice cereal (mixed with formula) and he HATED it. I mean, HATED it. We tried it for about 3 days and Stafford just wasn't having it so we decided to go straight to the Level 1 ( aka, supported sitter per Gerber's label) baby food. The doctor did tell me to start with all vegetables first because this would prevent Stafford from developing a sweet tooth early on. He also said to try the same vegetable for 3-4 days in a row just to make sure Stafford wasn't allergic to any of them. Makes sense, huh?!

So, our routine right now is a 7 am bottle, an 11 am bottle, a 3 pm bottle, a 6 pm veggie and a 7 pm bottle. We have only been doing baby food once a day to help him get the hang of it and he is doing GREAT! It took him about a week to figure out the spoon, how to use his tongue to push the food down, etc. Now, when he sees the spoon coming he opens wide!! It is too cute! We've tried every veggie and he seems to like them all so far. No favorites or least favorites...yet! Below are some of the "first timer" pictures:

peas first then STRAIGHT to the bath!!


carrots then STRAIGHT to the bath...see a pattern here?!!