Spoon Feeding

For the past month or so, we’ve been experimenting with feeding Hudson with a spoon. The first few attempts at rice cereal feedings resulted in most of the cereal on his bib, Bumbo, tray, face and hair.  I just can’t believe this little guy is already sitting up and eating real food with a spoon, instead of just taking a bottle. He gets cereal twice a day now and really seems to love it.

We usually strip him down to just a bib and diaper for feeding time.

At first, he just dribbled rice cereal out of his mouth. And although he liked feeding time, he wasn't swallowing so much as just learning to take a spoon. He would focus so hard on getting that spoon to his mouth that he goes cross-eyed looking at it!

We then introduced oatmeal with bananas to supplement rice cereal, and it's been a big hit. And now Hudson is a spoon-feeding pro. He ate two bowls of oatmeal without getting even a drop on his bib. He can’t get enough of the stuff! The other night he decided it would just be more efficient if he did it himself. The play-by-play: 

If I could just have this spoon...

and get this oatmeal in my mouth...

but it's so much harder than it looks...

so maybe if I just take the bowl...

because there has to be a way to get this out of here...

like licking it straight out of the bowl. Jackpot!

 
Then we added in vegetables and fruit combos - and surprisingly enough his favorite foods are Peas and Broccoli!