Solid Foods & Standing Up

One of the many many things that has amazed me over the past 7.5 months of having Felix around is how fast babies learn.

For example, he's been crawling (or more accurately creeping) for just over a week. You'd think perfecting that skill would keep him occupied for a month or so. This morning at 5am while he was playing on the floor and Steve and I were half asleep on the couches I heard Steve say "BOODY LOOK!" I looked over in time to see Felix pulling himself up to standing from the coffee table. We decided to move him away and hope that it was a fluke that he wouldn't repeat immediately.

Felix has been eating solid (or more accurately mushy) food for almost two months. We've been doing a combination of things...mushing up what we're eating, spoon feeding him puree's, and throwing in a bit of this craze I'd been reading about called Baby Led Weaning. BLW is simply giving the kid hunks of food and letting him suck on it until he figures out how to chew and swallow. BLW has by far worked the best for Felix. I like that it forces him to grab whatever food he wants off of his tray and work on his dexterity to get the slippery hunks into his mouth. I also like that he learns what different foods look like rather than just seeing them in puree form.

This morning we shared an orange. It was fun to see him experimenting by grabbing it and sucking the peel and the fruit side. I then noticed he'd completely stopped what he was doing and sat very quietly watching me eat my orange...he no longer sucked on the peel side. Amazing!

Perhaps it isn't really that amazing and I'm just amazed by it because these little progressions towards milestones are now the highlight of my day.