Applesauce for Dinner!

As I mentioned in her weekly photo post, Anna Kate had her first non-cereal food. She loves her rice cereal, and gets very excited when she sees her spoon and realizes what is happening. Mark has been begging me to get her started on some more solids (he doesn't have to clean the diapers or her seat!) and I made some homemade applesauce and froze it in cubes for Labor Day weekend so that she could try some before her 6 month appointment. As soon as Daddy caught wind there was "baby food" in the house, it was game on!

So we defrosted a cube of applesauce, and, well I think these photos speak for themselves...

She is getting used to them, but likes a starch on the side, so we have applesauce and rice cereal. Next up, sweet potatoes! (Don't tell Mark, they're in the freezer already..) I'm thinking she may not get to wear clothes for that one, considering she insists on putting her hands in her mouth in between bites. And sometimes her toes.

"Sweet, it is time for rice cereal!"

"That is NOT rice cereal!"

"Yuck!"

"Get it out! Get it out!"

"Dad, what was that?!"

Now, for your enjoyment, this is what it looks like when a baby blows raspberries with applesauce in her mouth... rasbblesaucerries?

Getting all wound up...

Blast off! We have food in the air!