Baby Food

Celia has started to eat solid foods now. And boy can she eat! She has taken to her fruits and veggies (avocado, green beans, bananas, sweet potatoes, peas, carrots, apple sauce) like gangbusters. We are feeding her three solid meals a day now (breakfast, lunch, and dinner), and she has 2 or 3 foods per meal (including cereal, which she doesn't love).

Preparing her food is wonderfully simple. Peel carrots; steam; put in cuisinart. Bake sweet potatoes; peel; put in cuisinart. Peel avocado; mash. Much less time-intensive than chicken parm or stuffed tomatoes.

We have been introducing a new food every third day or so. With the exception of peas, which elicited a Kendrick Perkins-like scowl, she has seemed to enjoy everything from the first bite. I think Andres was the same way...though Celia can really EAT, and I feel like we feed her about twice the amount we fed him when he was a baby.

It's also interesting to think about their respective diets now. Celia eats lots of fruits and vegetables (granted, it's whatever we feed her) and Andres, though he loves fruit, won't touch anything green with a ten-foot pole. Chicken nuggets, pizza, and the erstwhile PB&J are more his speed. Seemingly every day.

Andres is getting a kick out of seeing Celia eat. He loves feeding her too, and does a nice job of it:



But to prove he is not mature all the time, sometimes he provides the post-lunch entertainment too.