Anne's First Solids!

Anne ate her first official solids on Monday.  She is 5 1/2 months old.  They recommend you wait until 6 months these days, but Anne seems to be hungry ALL the time and still waking up at least twice a night for feedings.  I say "official solids" because I may have been sneaking her the tiniest of tastes of solids for a few weeks now... a tiny dab of frozen yogurt here, a morsel of lasagna sauce there, a lick of my lollipop.  Boy was the lollipop a mistake; Anne latched on to that thing like a suction cup and I had to break the seal to get it out of her mouth and pry her little fingers off the stick one by one).

Anyway, her first official solid was pureed, cooked carrots.  This is one of the suggested first tastes in my new recipe book 100 Baby Purees by Annabel Karmel (the recipes are not actually all purees despite the title).  Anne didn't get very much of the pureed carrots, maybe a tablespoon in total, but she seemed to eat most of it and I was impressed at how much stayed in her mouth.  The facial expressions were to die for.  I hope they are visible in the videos below.

Yesterday we fed her pureed carrots again with similar facial expressions.  Tonight we didn't have any carrots so we fed her mashed bananas.  She seemed to like the bananas way better.  She kept attacking the spoon and barely made any weird faces.

Anne's first taste of solids:

More of Anne's facial expressions:

Also here are some photos from the land this weekend:

Anne and Aunt Greta

A nice shot of Anne's jowls.

Anne loves cups.

And here are some other random photos:

Anne with her favourite toy from Aunty Laura.  Aunt Laura believes in getting them addicted early.

Anne when we first discovered her secret love for cups of all shapes and sizes.

And a couple of bonus videos just because: