First Food

Meh is about to turn six months this week. Yesterday we gave him rice cereal for the first time. Today we fed it to him twice. He scarfed it down.....kept holding the spoon and licking it, wouldn't let go of the spoon (started getting angry with me).

It was the cutest thing. He was so happy, he was devouring the food and the spoon with his mouth, hands and eyes. It was a full body experience. It's so enchanting to see how much pleasure and excitement introducing something -ie food- we take for granted.

It was also very sticky and messy. Since he's mine, there is nothing I can do but just clean him up thoroughly. Although that's easier said than done. This is what I feared --- the onset of stickiness: sticky fingers, sticky face, dirty clothes.....just overall stickiness. And there is no way around it. No way to make him not stick his hands into it and it be spread all over his face, hands, bib, clothes and the high chair.

It wasn't the poop (and there have been so many poopy diapers not to mention poop explosions all the way up to his shoulder blades) and even not so much the spit up that's getting me, but this stickiness is what I didn't look forward to. (There haven't been any puke incidences or runny noses yet. Although a few times I had to pull buggers out of his nose. And although he's my kid, a bugger is still a bugger, and it was gross.)

But I obviously adore him regardless of all my squimishness.