Solid Foods

We have always planned on waiting till January to begin solid food with Little Sis for two main reasons.  One, like Pockets, I plan on making all of her food which is a little more time consuming and requires children to be just a tad bit older than commercially made food.  And two, based on her developmental age she isn't even 5 months old yet.  Over the Thanksgiving holiday though Little Sis started staring us down when we were eating.  She watches everything you put in your mouth or drink and smacks her lips.  So with that said Ryan and I decided to just try a bannana and see what she did.  We were nervous for her safety because she still has some lingering oral motor delays which make it difficult for her to take a bottle, but she was just fine.  She didn't eat much, only about an inch of mashed bannana and she didn't seem super intersted but more just tolerant.  Since Thanksgiving we have tried two other times to feed her and both attempts went smoothly so we may try a few more foods in the coming weeks.  Because she is a little young developmentally there are still lots of foods we have to be carefull about, so we aren't going to push her and will proabably still wait till January to really start solid food but if she wants to sit with us for one meal every few days we would love for her to join the table.