If you have a child, at some point you will have to feed that child real food. If you have not yet had the pleasure of experiencing this day in your own life, please learn from the mistakes that we made today so that you may actually enjoy this experience.
1. Agree on who will put together the high chairs, and then agree that everyone should read the directions to put together said high chairs. I won't go in to details on this topic to protect the innocent...but I will say that no one in this house is innocent on this topic.
2. This is a milestone moment. You're going to want pictures of it, right? Make sure the camera battery is charged. Especially if you are the one that knows that you use the camera every.single.day. and may have never charged the battery since you bought it.
3. Ideally, someone will be the feeder, and someone will be the photographer. It's easier to feed a baby than to take good pictures, so if you are the most experienced party in both of these areas, you should be the photographer and your spouse, by default, becomes the feeder. (We actually did this correctly.)
4. If you allow your husband to feed your baby for the first time, and you are a bit of a Type A personality like I am, be prepared to give him instructions on how to do it that are on par with the instructions needed to build an airplane. If you don't do that...blame yourself when your tiny baby is making sad faces at you over a giant mouthful of food.
I could actually describe the events of our day, but I think these pictures speak for themselves. First up, Abby, then Jake.
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| Staring down the bowl... |
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| What's happening? This looks good! |
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| Okay, you're coming in a little strong. |
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| Uh, I was not prepared for this. |
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| Mommy HELP!!!!! |
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| Waaahhhh what did he just do to me waaaahhhh!! |
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| I have no interest in what is happening here. |
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| Still no interest. |
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| Still no interest. |
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| Are you watching this? He is literally shoving this spoon in my mouth. |
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| NothankyouIdon'twantthisinmymouthplease |
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| Soooo I'll just let it all fall out. |
AAAAAAAND scene. My camera died, I realized that no one was strapped in to their high chairs correctly, everyone started crying, and then someone read the clock wrong, and then someone else thought it was almost nap time, and the comedy of errors continued until it actually WAS nap time, and every living thing in our house slept for an hour and a half. And THAT was the best part of trying real food today! Oh, and somewhere in there, Ollie ate food from Jake's bowl. It was avocado and breast milk, and yes I tasted it, and yes it was good so I didn't blame him, but I was not happy about it.
Some adorableness from the past few days to prove that it's not all rough stuff around here:
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