First Foods

Lochlan turned six months of age on Sunday, so we celebrated today (Tuesday) by feeding him his first foods! I've read a few baby books about introducing first foods and the best one I've found so far is Super Baby Foods. Since he's getting enough iron from a combo of breast milk and milk-based organic formula, we didn't bother with rice cereal. Instead he got a super mashed up banana, mixed with breast milk. I really wanted to give him avocado as his first food, but I forgot to pick one up at the health food store yesterday. Instead, he was stuck with an organic banana straight out of Mexico! :)
In honor of his eating his first solids, he got to wear his "All you need is love" bib, which was given to him by our favorite tree-house dwellers, Kimberly and David. I felt this bib was fitting as Lochlan already seems to have a love relationship with food. He had his six month well-baby checkup today, and he weighs almost 19 lbs, and is almost 29 inches long. He's in the 75th percentile for weight and 97th percentile for length/height. What a beast!


We have to wait four days before he can eat something else, to make sure he doesn't have any allergic reaction to banana. Up next (Saturday): sweet potato or avocado.