Finger foods

So remember my last post when I was all.....we made progress in the eating baby food department? Yeah, not so much. Kaua has been antifood again. bleh! What is up with this boy? He is more fickle about food than an anorexic teen! So today, I tried just giving him finger foods during his "meals." Breakfast was soft whole wheat bread and a couple slices of strawberries. Man did he enjoy that! Enjoy playing with it I mean. He took that bread and smooshed it all over the place. Perhaps a crumb or two may have made it into his mouth and got swallowed, but that was it. He did get a teeny slice of strawberry down too, and let me tell you, the shiver he gave afterward (likely due to the tartness) was cute. Lunch? pssh...the ever so easy to clean pasghetti and tomato sauce (dont think we've graduated to the meatballs yet) and two small slices of pineapple. Boy that was a blast with Kaua too.....did anything make it to his mouth? Not quite, but it was a lot of fun to watch him try to get the noodle all covered in sauce to his mouth. I swear, he must have gotten sauce everywhere but in his mouth. Still trying to figure out what to give him for dinner. Thinking of avocados, cheese and/or softened veggies.

I figure, if he's not going to eat baby food, maybe he's ready for finger foods. I got this brilliant idea when I was eating breakfast and he kept reaching for my bagel and keeping his jaw clamped shut like steel when I tried to give him his pureed peaches, bananas and oatmeal. We'll see if we make any solids food progress with the finger foods diet. Maybe if I can make eating food "fun" he'll be more receptive to anything other than breast milk. And the adventures in foods continues.