Food, glorious food!

We have been on a food adventure with Alexa! We are trying to get her ready to eat table food by the time she is 1, which is coming up soon. So we are introducing a variety of finger foods to get her used to new tastes and textures. Up this week: Egg yolks, avocado, bananas and peaches!

Here is Alexa trying the egg yolks. Babies aren't supposed to have the whites until they reach 1 because it often causes allergic reactions. So I hard boiled the eggs and let her try the yolk. It crumbled a lot, which made it hard for her to eat. It was also a very weird texture for her. I ended up mashing it up and mixing it into a jar of veggies to add texture and allow her to taste it and get the nutritional benefit.

Next, we tried avocado, which is supposed to be an excellent food for babies. Unfortunately, the avocado was not as soft as I would have liked, so it was hard to mash. I plan to try this one again, hopefully, with a more ripe avocado! Several of my mom friends report that their babies LOVE mashed avocado.

The biggest hit so far has been bananas! She LOVES them! She is definitely partial to fruit, as is common with babies. They love sweet stuff. We try to offer her vegetables and meat first, then give her fruit for desert. The bananas were a big hit, both raw like this and also frozen and served in the mesh bags. Go bananas!

And, finally, here is Alexa having fun with peaches! Daddy sliced some up for her. She's already had pureed peaches, but this was the first time she tried it fresh. She made some funny faces, but after she got a taste, she liked it!