Eating the bowl

Why bother with the food when the container is bright, cool and has tasty chewable bits at the bottom?


Kerian loves to suck on his bowl but once he did realise there was food in there, he did give each piece a fair go. Papa cut the food this time and instead of a large cherry tom, Kerian got a half tomato with a precut handle: how convenient! The cucumber was successful again. Kerian seems to delight in the noise his gums make against the skin. The carrot is hard because raw but if we prop it up on the table it's fun to grab. Note the fancy cut outs to make it easy to handle. Despite what kerian's marraine thought, this is exclusively for ease of handling and not aesthetics! I'll try to post some photos of the food the way we cut it to show it a bit better. The batavia leaf had less success but to be fair, it was a bit wilted and boring.

Kerian mastered a new talent on saturday: he can now sit unaided for quite a while. He catches himself when out of balance and uses our hands as levers to prop himself back up when needed. This has come very handy in the high chair. Baby K seems to be able to stay for much longer before he gets frustrated.

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Bananas are fun to suck on!

Babanas are messy especially if they are ripe. They also are very pale and never really roused interest in Kerian unless he pulled some to his mouth from our hands. But on December 19th, that changed.
This is my absolute favourite: pure, raw faces from tasting new foods! A chunk made its way in his mouth, which he of course spat out in due course but I did find some banana glob with its fibres in a poo this morning. Kerian is an EC'd baby so it's very easy to see what comes out of his guts. Although he's still too little to process he seems to have no problems with bits of food travelling along his digestive tube.

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A leaf

Kerian is still ill but he was in a great mood around lunch time and we were both home so he sat with us. We had a salad with veggie burgers and Kerian had his usual plus one batavia leaf. He did not even look at the rest. He brandished the bowl before I could lay the food before him and immediately went for the leaf! From one hand to the other and a good exploration with the tongue. I think he liked the coolness and the water on it. The texture was very different and it was very easy to grasp. Salad will definitely be on the menu again!

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Cool as a cucumber

This WE, we gave Kerian a cucumber. I thought he would destroy it but he is rather delicate. I don't think he likes the taste 'cause he made faces again today when I gave him a piece. But judge for yourself: Kerian grimacing through the discovery but still giving it a go. Note the tongue exploring the skin and flesh. Kerian does this with the cold air outside as well and definitely on anything new. He's quite precise with this move.

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First foods

I am just gonna post pictures of Kerian exploring his first bits of food from the 10th to the 14th of December...

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Hello!

Well, we have to start somewhere and that somewhere is a lovely background and really ill positioned text and photos! Anyway...Baby Kerian is ill today but I am going to start posting.

Kerian started sitting with us on his latch on Chicco chair a couple weeks ago, including at the restaurant and has been watching all the eating activity with growing interest.

So five days ago, at lunch time, I decided to hand him a tomato, a slice of red pepper, a carrot, an apple slice and a bit of banana. He's been playing with food at almost every meal since then.

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