Ben's 1st Cereal

Ben had rice cereal for the first time last night. I think he has been ready for awhile to try solid food but we were trying to wait as long as possible at the doctor's recommendation. Since Ben has eczema, he has a greater chance of having a food allergy so the pediatrician wanted us to wait for as long as we could to start him on solids. Since he is almost 5 1/2 months old, I figured we had waited as long as we could. The daycare teacher mentioned yesterday that she thought he was very interested in solid foods and was ready and I figured, there is no time like the present, so we gave it a whirl. He has seemed ready for quite awhile. He is interested in our food and tries to grab it. He loves playing with spoons and putting them in his mouth. We gave him a popsicle when he was teething and he absolutely loved it! I should post a picture of that. It was funny! Anyway, here is Ben eating his rice cereal. He really seemed to like it. He had rice cereal again tonight and seemed to like it tonight as well! He wanted to hold the spoon and grab the bowl the whole time. That would have resulted in a huge mess!