Yeah! New Foods

I am so excited...I just have to share it... It has been so hard to get Parker to eat food. It took WEEKS to get him to eat the baby cereals and once he started doing that it took a long time to get him to eat anything else too. I started by slowly adding small amounts of pureed veggies and fruits to his cereals. I can now add quite a bit to his cereals. He eats cereal 3 times a day because that is all he will eat and he is hungry. I have been getting him to try other things now. He loves Cherrios (finally) and Gerber Lil' Puiffs. My grandmother fed him Jello and he loves that. He ate egg yoke the other day and now loves that. I have been working on cheese and cottage cheese too. He is not so sure about it yet. BUT TODAY, he just ate his Barley cereal with pureed sweet potatoes, then had more than half a small jar of pureed turkey (first time eating it) and then I decided to try a banana. I cut up some little pieces and he LOVED it. He wanted to pick it up himself but those suckers are slippery! I wasn't sure he would eat the turkey because Staucie, who would eat anything, did not like the pureed meats, but Parker seemed to like it okay. I will try more for dinner. Anyway, I am so excited he is trying new foods and liking them. I can't wait to keep adding more foods to his menu. Maybe he can have some avacado for dinner! Oh the small things that make a mother happy! And I added a picture of the kids playing with aunt Tyne in the bus yesterday so my post is less boring (but exciting for me and Parker!).