Peas are Yummy.

i had to keep telling myself that as i was feeding aria lunch today... until today, her reaction to peas has been less than positive, but after adding some formula and rice cereal to her peas, she seemed to appreciate them more... it was just i that had to refrain from gagging while i was feeding her, the smell of formula i have become accustomed to and the smell of peas i can tolerate, but the 2 combined was just almost more than i could handle. but she ate with such enthusiasm that my disgust was overtaken with joy that she was finally enjoying a green veggie! celebrate! until now, the only things we've been able to get her to eat are squash and sweet potatoes. i'm not even going near fruits yet, because with her genetic sweet-tooth history, we'd never get her to eat anything substantial if we brought in any form of sugar at this point.

last night, during the super bowl, aria was getting so annoyed with everyone eating and not sharing with her, she nearly swiped grandpa's cracker with cheese right right from his fingers! she leaned over so far and fast to gt to it, she pretty much fell out of my mom's lap! we all had a good laugh, but realized we needed to do something about this "food jealousy" issue... we gave her a stick of celery to chew on. many people recommend celery for infants while they're teething because it feels good on their gums, but aria was mostly confused by it - we've never encouraged her to put anything solid in her mouth before besides her bottle and paci, so the fact we were encouraging the celery probably made it less fun for her. but her face was EXTREMELY entertaining for us. i'm pretty sure she was NOT expecting it to taste like that, but she put it back in her mouth several times. hopefully, we'll have a veggie eater here soon! :)

what was your kid's first real food?

Aria after her first meal of squash!