First Bite!

Here it is! Grace's first time eating rice cereal on Dec. 5. Never before seen footage. You saw it first here, folks! Since then, she's added carrots, eggplant, and green beans to her repertoire。

Pass the rice, please!

Well, actually Grace was really saying "Please DON'T pass the rice" tonight, but it was a milestone nonetheless. When we started with Archie he was delighted to have something other than milk and reached out his mouth like a little bird waiting for the mother bird to drop in the worm. Grace was a little less enthusiastic but took a few bites anyway (after much spitting out). She's starting to wake up really early in the mornings for a 4:30-5:00 a.m. feed so we're thinking she needs a little more in her belly. I'm hoping she'll take more soon because I'm spoiled to a sleeping-through-the-night baby.


Hunt made this picture before the feeding process started. He's proud of it, and I like it, too.

No Shoes, No Shirt, No Problem

Since arriving in Thailand, Archie has developed quite a fondness for sandwiches. And, what goes better with a grilled cheese sandwich than a nice bowl of tomato soup? Archie is making slow but steady progress toward learning to use a spoon. (Home is the best place to practice so he can get nice and relaxed without a shirt to spill on.)


I love to dip my sandwich in the soup, too!

Sometimes it's easier if Daddy helps a little.

Yummy!

I love spaghetti!

These two videos show Archie's progress towards self-sufficiency and his new skills in mess-making! Both videos are similar, but there are more cute baby noises in the first one and more self-feeding in the second! ENJOY!

Eating like a big boy!

Ha ha! We were eating at a restaurant with some visiting Americans, and they thought Archie eating off my chopsticks was pretty funny! When they decided to take a picture, I did too! Archie's feasting on some "Cold Dish that Families Often (Eat)" (lit. translation :)). What's in this often eaten dish? Tofu strips, carrots, cucumbers, some weird noodle like things and a sweetish vinegary sauce. One of my favorites and Archie's too (although Hunt doesn't care for it much). I could not feed him fast enough. If I stopped to take a bite, he would grab my arm in an attempt to redirect the chopsticks to his mouth!


Here we are at another restaurant with some of my friends! Archie's not looking at the camera - must be looking at the pork and cabbage dumplings he's craving! YUMMY!

Archie has learned about the summertime delights of watermelon. The only problem is he makes such a big mess when he eats it, I have to take his clothes off except for his diaper!

An opinion on peaches!

Now, don't be fooled by the picture. While I will admit peaches may not be his favorite, after making that terrible little face, he opened up his mouth wide for some more. Evidently, he doesn't detest them too much. What a meal! Feed, scrunch up face, feed again, scrunch up face, until Mama finally mixed them with some pears...

Pass the eggplant, please!

Notice I said, "Pass the eggplant" not "Pass UP the eggplant." That's right, Folks, Archie LOVES eggplant. I think it's his favorite veggie to date. He must take after his Mama. Eggplant is super popular around here. When taking pictures, the locals say "Eggplant" instead of "Cheese." (The ending of their word for eggplant is similar to our word for cheese, which results in the same nice smile.) He also loves carrots, green beans, zucchini, asparagus, sweet potatoes, apples, bananas and pears. He tolerates peas and pumpkin. Basically, if I feed it to him, he eats it. He hasn't rejected anything yet. Below watch him enjoy his eggplant from his brand new big boy high chair!

I can feed myself. (Just kidding!)

Hunter has been encouraging me to expand the horizons of my blog beyond a collection of Archie pictures to concrete and helpful information. (Although, isn't a picture worth 1000 words?) Sounds like fun, though, so here goes...

I'm always on the quest for the next food to introduce to Archie. I've been adding one new food every four days for awhile now. I think Archie needs more protein so lentils are next on the schedule. Take my poll on what your baby likes best (if you can still remember). Then, leave me a comment with other suggestions. If you've got a baby and you're in need of suggestions, too, check out my favorite website http://www.wholesomebabyfood.com/.

Which is/was your baby's favorite food
	Bananas
	Apples
	Pears
	Other fruits
	Sweet potatos
	Carrots
	Green beans
	Peas
	Avacodos
	Other veggies
	Cereals
	Meat
	Other
Free polls from Pollhost.com

Poll Results

OK, I'll admit this isn't the most enlightening poll ever, but it was fun to see what you said.
Babies evidently don't have much consensus on favorite foods because the results were:

13% bananas

13%apples

13%green beans

25%sweet potatoes

13%other vegetables

13%cereals

13%other
I would sure love to know more about the other votes. Maybe Archie would like the other foods, too.

What Is This Stuff???

It's a bird! It's a plane! Hey, what's coming for a landing into my mouth anyway? Archie had his first taste of carrots this week, followed by his first taste of pumpkin four days later. This brings the total cuisine on his culinary palate up to six items (milk, baby rice cereal, baby barley cereal, baby oat cereal, mashed up carrots and mashed up pumpkin)! I know he's quivering with anticipation at the thought of trying mashed up sweet potatoes and peas next week.






He's also making an attempt at holding and drinking from a cup of water. He loves to help us hold our cups, but he's not too interested in his own sippy cup at this point. I'll post a new picture when that changes :)