Eating is Hard

Last February our brother got married, and within a year, Boy-o and Sunny were blessed with a gorgeous baby girl. 

Ladybug is just the cutest little thing, and she's just started on solid foods. Well, by solid I mean "more solid than milk" because baby food is just really thick mush-juice of various flavors. I asked Sunny how it was going, and here's some of what she told me:

It used to be that you waited until 6 months to start babies on solids: now its 4-6 months, but Ladybug was spitting up a lot and was really hungry so we started her on solids at just over 3 months. It fixed the problem! 

When we first started she liked to put her hands up in her mouth as we fed her, which of course makes a mess, but, I let her do it because at some point I want her to feed herself. 

Her newest thing is to grab the spoon and help me get it to her mouth. I tried to let her do it by herself but she's not that talented yet, the spoon hits her chest instead of her mouth!

I LOVE feeding her solids! It is so much fun because she is having such a positive experience. I laugh and laugh almost every feeding. I love her using her spoon, and lots of times she talks through the entire feeding. (She reminds us of What About Bob, haha. "Are these peas hand-ground?") Her favorite are the frozen peas and butternut squash!

Now we all know it's difficult to learn to eat in the first place, but even as adults we sometimes have our issues, such as food going down the wrong pipe. EVERYBODY has had this problem at least once, but NOBODY has this problem the way Goosey has this problem.

Here's what happens to Goosey:

1. First, food goes down the wrong pipe. (Read this HuffPost article about what happens here).
2. I cough a lot.
3. I cough some more, which is good, because it's clearing the stuff from my lungs, but it also forces stuff up into my nose which makes me...
4. SNEEZE. So I've been coughing, and now I'm sneezing, and...
5. my face gets all red, and...
6. my eyes start watering as...
7. I finally catch my breath.
8. Lastly, I need to excuse myself and clean up the chewed-food-spittle-snot-tears mess all over my face and hands and...
9. hope everybody I was with forgets what they just saw.

AND NOW here's Puddin' proving she's the Master Baby Food Taste Tester!!