A Refined Palate

Feeding babies is always an adventure. Spencer spit out everything but vegetables. Ella LOVED everything (at least that's what I remember and I'm sticking to it) and Libby won't go near baby food.

We started with rice cereal which she HATED! Although the faces she made were priceless, we decided to stop torturing her just for our laughs.

The pediatrician recommended we wait another month and then start with veggies. This was a complete failure so I turned to the best resource, another mom. My friend Irene suggested mashing up an avocado. SUCCESS!! Libby loves avocados and eats a half of one for almost every meal. I have tried also mashing pear and mangoes but she far prefers her avocado. Some of you might think this is why she is so pleasantly plump but she was already 20 lbs before the solid food.

Wednesday night we took the family out to dinner. Lance and I split my favorite pizza - artichokes, sun dried tomatoes, and mozzarella cheese fired in a brick oven. Libby ate her avocado and gnawed on pizza crust happily until yesterday afternoon when I attempted to eat leftovers. I handed her my crust but she kept staring my pizza down. Every time I took a bite she became more and more frantic. Finally, in an attempt to shock her out of crying, I stuck some artichoke in her mouth. I fully expected her to make her funny face and spit out the artichoke - BUT SHE LOVED IT! I couldn't get it in her fast enough! She kept opening up her mouth and crying if I wasn't shoving artichoke into it. She ate ALL MY ARTICHOKE off of two pieces of pizza.

So her diet now consists of avocados and artichokes . . . a girl after my own heart :) I wonder what's next?