Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Operation Spoon-Feed

Operation Spoon-Feed is being considered a success. Jacob managed to gobble-down 1/2 a tablespoon of rice cereal on Monday night. He wasn't so sure at first, but finally realized how to open his mouth and suck the cereal off of the spoon. After that, he was excited for each mouthful. There was still a little cereal that managed to escape and landed on his innocent white onesie. The good news is that I expected more casualties than that.

Below is the evidence. I do want to note that I couldn't get any of him smiling because he was too anxious for the next spoonful and had his complete concentration on my hand movements.

Thursday, July 16, 2009

Moving Up

Jacob got his first "taste" of rice cereal last night. By that, I mean that he lost patience with the spoon, screamed loudly, and the cereal just pooled in his mouth. I don't think any actually made it down his throat.

Needless to say, we aborted Operation Spoon-Feed and made the boy happy with his bottle. Apparently, he prefers efficiency over novelty.

Despite our obvious failure, we got some good shots of Jake in his shiny new highchair. A few are included below, see Family Photos for the full spread.