Well...now we know how much he likes sweet potato. As sad as he looks, it was actually hilarious to watch him make those faces. He truly was horrified at what we were trying to do to him. He gave me a look that very clearly said "Why?! What did I do to deserve you putting such a thing in my mouth?!" Really, basically none of it got into his mouth anyway. As soon as he realized it didn't taste like milk, he locked his lips together and gave us his most pathetic frown possible.
He really did show all the signs that he was ready for eating, but apparently he wasn't quite there yet. We tried a few more days over the week (this was 2 weeks ago) and he didn't seem to like it any better. We had a bit more luck with carrots, and by that I simply mean he didn't look quite so sad about it, but he still didn't eat any. He enjoyed playing with it some. We decided to wait a bit longer since he clearly was not ready for it.
Yesterday, I had a feeling that he was ready. It had been almost 2 weeks since we tried the sweet potato unsuccessfully and he just seemed like now he'd really want it. I was right. We tried the carrots again and he ate pretty much the entire ounce. He was opening his mouth and really mushing it around with his tongue and then swallowing most of it (a bunch still landed on his bib, the table, his face, his hands, me, etc) but a good part of it went all the way in. :) Thanks to our friends Pam and Judy at Deep Roots Farm for their carrots as Rory's first official solid food!!
So cute! Ah! Riley hates sweet potato too and adores carrots (but they give her diaper rash, so she can't have them right now). Congratulations Rory! You are getting so big!
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