The food fight

There was no real fight, really.  We discussed when to start feeding Hollis and although I wasn't sure if he was mimicking or trying to show signs of hunger, I decide to feed him just before 6 months anyhow.  Now 2 weeks past he 6 month birthday he is just showing some signs of digesting the food and still very little interest in eating grown up food, aside from bananas, avocados and winter squash.  Its funny those are probably my favorites too out of all that we tried, which confirms the whole breast milk dietary preference conditioning theory for me.

I started out at five months with some tastes of rice cereal (not interested) green beans (not interested) and banana (wow, loved it). Later at 6 months we  tried again, but with a full serving of green beans because we had them in the freezer.  We had two quart bags frozen from the harvest season.  We had barely used any of our stored green beans but those few times we did, we like them.  We liked them sauteed with soy sauce, sesame oil and sesame seeds.  For Hollis I blended them up with some water and froze them into cubes. His first meal went well.  He ate about 2 full tablespoons all up.  And then... and then... and then our every five day pooper began pooping every hour.  Seriously all day and all night.  I stopped giving him green beans and went to winter squash.  I saved the last 5 or so squashes from our CSA and cooked and froze them with Hollis in mind.  He loved it!  And it is was much better on the other side too.  For him and for me.  I have tried carrots, sweet potatoes, bananas, home made rice cereal, golden beets, pears and avocados.  Tonight I tried some of the applesauce I made with a good friend during the fall.  Hollis never made such a distastful face.  It was if I made him lick a lemon!  Applesauce.

Adventures with food, I never thought I would love feeding anyone more than feeding myself until I met Hollis.