Since we first started feeding Anna solid foods about 4 months ago, she has happily eaten most of what we have given her. In the past few days she's become a little choosey. We think this is due to the fact that she has become less interested in mushy foods served on a spoon and more interested in small bites of food that she needs to chew. I guess these are referred to as "finger foods," because babies can pick them up with their fingers and feed themselves. However in Anna's case it's not quite her fingers that are doing the feeding yet. She is trying to feed herself though. Yesterday, with her first experience with cheerios, she came so close to getting one in her mouth herself a couple times.
So right now Anna's finger foods consist of pear (her favorite by far!), banana (which you may remember she would not eat in the mushed up version a few months ago, but she loves in small bites), carrot, potato, peas, and cheerios.
So how does Anna show her preference for these fine delicacies? Well, yesterday when her grandparents visited on the way back from North Carolina, Anna didn't want her lunch. So her grandpa peeled a pear and let her take some little bites off it. Now when it was time for dinner, she didn't want to eat her fine oatmeal and mashed lima beans so we took her out of her high chair and set her down to play. She crawled right under the counter in the kitchen where the fruit basket is stored and started motionning and reaching for the pears. Matt & I could not believe she remembered this, but we peeled the pear and managed to get her to eat bites of her mushy food in between pear bites. At lunch today she would only eat her mushy rice cereal and mushy carrots in between bites of banana and cheerios. It's a good compromise, but I can't figure out how we reached this negotiation without sharing a common language!
Well, for dinner we're going to give avocado a second try - this time in bites!
So right now Anna's finger foods consist of pear (her favorite by far!), banana (which you may remember she would not eat in the mushed up version a few months ago, but she loves in small bites), carrot, potato, peas, and cheerios.
So how does Anna show her preference for these fine delicacies? Well, yesterday when her grandparents visited on the way back from North Carolina, Anna didn't want her lunch. So her grandpa peeled a pear and let her take some little bites off it. Now when it was time for dinner, she didn't want to eat her fine oatmeal and mashed lima beans so we took her out of her high chair and set her down to play. She crawled right under the counter in the kitchen where the fruit basket is stored and started motionning and reaching for the pears. Matt & I could not believe she remembered this, but we peeled the pear and managed to get her to eat bites of her mushy food in between pear bites. At lunch today she would only eat her mushy rice cereal and mushy carrots in between bites of banana and cheerios. It's a good compromise, but I can't figure out how we reached this negotiation without sharing a common language!
Well, for dinner we're going to give avocado a second try - this time in bites!
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