Feeding Time (There's a Video...)

My mom came to visit last weekend and she got a great video of Eli eating solid foods. Eli has taken well to eating some solid foods during the day and he pretty much will gobble up most foods. We are following some of the advice in Super Baby Food which is a great book. It has a nice balance of advice on both feeding babies organically and also how to save money. No little baby food jars here, I'll whip up a batch of veggies and then freeze them in ice cube trays. When we want to feed Eli, we'll just thaw 2 cubes and get the meal going. It's been really easy and nice to just use the food we have in the house. Some of the foods that Eli has tried are sweet potatoes, carrots, spinach, yogurt, squash, peas and spelt/oat cereal. So far he's been liked most everything and we haven't had too many issues just a few moments of food being spit into our face. He's starting to understand that it's fun for him to spit his food out all over the kitchen!

He also is getting really good at sitting in his highchair. We opted for a chair version that comes right up the the table so he can join the action. Initially we had to tie him into the chair with a receiving blanket because Eli's little spine couldn't quite handle it. But starting this week he can sit up very well in his chair. Though, that means that he can lean forward and get things off the table, we learned that the hard way with a bowl full of food! So far, it's been great to have Eli at the table in all the action. It's been fun to give him some "work" to do and I love watching how he concentrates on something that intrigues him.

It's crazy how much and how fast he is growing up! I just can't believe that he's been in our lives for 6 months. The time as flown by and we don't really remember what our lives were like prior to Eli (that's some good amnesia!)