Open Wide

Mom, where's my bottle?

Tillman has been "off and on" with his tolerance of rice cereal.  He got his first taste of it last Saturday.  His first taste, which is pictured, was him getting the "hang of" something being in his mouth.  He still has a pretty strong tongue reflex (or whatever you call it), so he is pushing a lot of the cereal out instead of swallowing.  We think it might be a while until he really prefers the cereal and will begin taking it down.  Frankly, at this point with him pushing it out, it is a MESS!  He is very interested in his hands, so once the hands get in the mouth full of cereal, it is in his eyes, on his clothes, all over his face, and all over us! 

Daddy, what is mommy doing to me?
Put down the camera and help me out!

By the second time we gave him rice cereal, he certainly got the hang of "open wide."  He knows when that spoon is near to open his mouth.  It is really pretty cute.  Once the spoon is in his mouth, his face looks like he is thinking "why did I do that (open my mouth)?" 

Oh, I just don't know about this.

 We are attempting to give him rice cereal once a day (twice on the weekends since we have more time with him).  Sometimes it goes well, other times no so much.  I feel he is ready to transfer to taking down food (cereal).  Tillman is taking down a lot of milk these days (more than I make in a day).  We've even had to pull some out of the freezer (he's received 10 ozs extra the past few days; equaling around ~46 ozs per day/24 hours). 

Bottle, please!

We're going to keep "plugging" away at rice cereal.  The doctor said that by the time we take him to his 6 month appointment, he should be taking down some fruits and veges!  I am sure those will taste a lot better than the rice cereal, but it is important since that is how Tiny T is getting his iron. 

When is this going to stop?

Ok...so maybe this stuff isn't all that bad!