Wednesday, April 11, 2007

Adventures in self-feeding

So, Hannah is 6 months old now, and we decided to let her start self-feeding a little. This morning, I cut some graspable slices of avacado and plopped them in front of her in her high chair. She immediately made a HUGE mess. She did taste the avacado a teensy bit, but didn't really eat any. I gave her another slice when we ate dinner, since I thought she might be encouraged to eat "with" us. The second time she got some avacado in her mouth, acted like she was chewing it, and swallowed a bit. She seemed to like it, and didn't make any upset faces. She seemed to have a good time.

Here are some pictures from the avacado sessions :) Note that the avacado was originally in hand sized spears. I just didn't get the camera there before Hannah had a chance to mush it all up!





1 comment:

Courtney said...

Good idea to take off her shirt! I wish I'd thought of that during our first feedings. We did avocado first too. Wasn't such a big hit, though. In fact, he still doesn't eat much of anything. (Well, except paper.)