A whole new world

Jake has now officially experienced "food." I use that term loosely, because I can't imagine that brown rice cereal is all that fantastic, but you know. It's opened the door to a whole new world for his little taste buds and we're already having so much fun with it.

His first cereal feeding was hilarious. He started out all excited, like, "Sitting on the table is the best!" But that excitement was followed quickly with, "What on earth are you doing to me? And why?"

(You'll have to excuse our baby voices in these video clips.)

Jake was so not into it, and it was so funny watching his reaction, which could initially only be described as utter disgust. He warmed up to it a little more as we went on, but mostly just because we let him play with the spoon and the bowl. The bowl was extra fun, apparently. Especially when he flung it across the room! Let me tell you, he was quite pleased with himself for getting rid of his nemesis.

Let's just say Jakey was happy when it was all over... and even happier when he got to take a bath.

Round two was definitely more successful. Jake gave that cereal quite the side eye at the beginning though. "Oh. This again."

But as it turns out, cereal isn't so bad after all!

A week later, my little cereal hater is now a cereal lover and he gets really excited when he sees the bowl and spoon. He'll be six months old next week(!), so we'll jump into solids then. I have a feeling he's going to like them.