Table foods

Yay! Ellie had her first helping of table food! Nothin' special, just cubes of whole wheat oatmeal bread. She started the gagging like with the puffs at first, but quickly realized she had to chew it first. She learns so quickly.

I'm so excited for her. There are so many new things for her to try now... scrambled eggs, cheese, cheerios, baby biscuits, etc. We went to the store right after and stocked up on all the new goodies.

What finally made me push on in this new territory was something my sister told me yesterday while she was visiting. Her sister (we're half sisters) can't get her 9-year-old son to eat anything but yogurt. Seriously. That's all he eats all day. She buys vats of the stuff for him. All because he had a bad gag reflex as a baby, so she never pushed solid food. Fast forward 9 years, and it's now become a psychological thing with him, He refuses to eat anything but the yogurt. He'll drink anything, but he won't even touch pudding, soup, jello, none of it. That scared the crap out of me.

So I made a promise to start table foods with Ellie the very next day. And I'm so glad I did. She was so happy to be able to feed herself. I even had dry toast to eat bread when she ate bread. She loved it! She felt like such a big girl. She even clapped for herself. LOL. She does that a lot. She's her own cheering section.

What to try next? I think we'll try the cheerios, since that's oat, too. Next weekend, we'll do the scrambled eggs. And maybe she can try the cheese for a snack sometime during the week. I want to check for allergies, so only one thing at a time.

You'd think it was ME trying something new, I'm so excited. Like discovering chocolate for the first time or something.