First cereal

Last week, when my folks were in town, we tried a little bit of rice cereal for RUS in the morning. He was hungry at the time and though he didn't mind it too much, he did run out of patience and started fussing for his bottle before too long. So we waited about a week before trying again.

Last night I pulled out the rice cereal again. It was right after dinner. R, S, and I were all eating a simple cous cous dish I pulled together and RUS was watching every bite we all took, and would bring his hands to his mouth and chew while we chewed our food. He was ready.

He did spit some of the food out of his mouth - generally whenever I got the food in front of his tongue instead of on top of it, he would push it out. But then he started playing with it in his mouth before spitting it out. And then he seemed to get the idea that he could move it around with his tongue and then suck it down. This all happened in a matter of a dozen or so spoonfuls.

Tonight he was a pro. He was reaching for the spoon to pull it in, biting down on the spoon, sucking the cereal off. His first bite he made a funny face that I attributed to not warming up the milk before mixing it, but after he got used to it, he was lunging for the food every time I got it near him.

So in the end, not too much food missed his mouth. There were a couple of incidents involving the blowing of raspberries with cereal in the mouth that got Daddy in the face, but quite a bit of the food was actually eaten.

And yes, we are thanking our lucky stars that he's been such a good baby! Night time sleeping, taking the bottle, and now eating his cereal. I just won't mention the nap thing. . .