Solid Effort

Isn't that title clever??  Sometimes I amaze myself.

Anyway, we started solids.  The doc told me it is now beneficial to start the babies on veggies rather than cereal because, well, they don't really need the cereal anymore.  It used to be iron fortified for those few decades when women weren't breastfeeding but now that we are, and also that formulas have iron, blah blah you get the point and I was boring myself explaining that.

I am going to attempt to make my own baby food eventually, but for the first few efforts I decided to just get some organic jars of vegetables before I fully commit.  But it just so happened that I had an organic avocado in my fridge and discovered through Dr. Google that it is an excellent vegetable or fruit (or whatever it is) for babies.  So I mashed it up guacamole style, put on a sombrero, and fed it to my baby.  He loved it, but didn't quite get the hang of opening his mouth and/or swallowing.

I tried the avocado for a few days, then switched to carrots, then switched to squash.  He's still not turning into the cute baby bird like the Mac-ster.  He mostly just tastes the food, enjoys it, and then drools it all over himself.  And this adventure has also taken a toll on his butt cheeks.  He has diaper rash like you wouldn't believe.  It looks like someone poured acid on his ass.  (<---- it's weird how funny I think I am when I say stuff like that.  ASSID on his ASS. OMG.  Maybe I need to get out more.)

After all is said and done, I have decided that he is not quite ready for the solids.  Or maybe it's that I'm lazy and it makes me sad when he cries because his bum hurts.  Either way, we're taking a break from it for another week or so.  I actually might revert to the cereal because it seems like if he shits out some rice it might hurt less than shitting out vegetable goop.

This is like the South Park episode where they said shit as many times as they could.  Speaking of South Park, my god, a bunch of you gals live in Colorado!  Maybe we should have a Rocky Mountain mom meet up sometime???