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Our little guys is such a great baby food eater so far!  We haven't tried too many things yet but what we have  tried he has loved.  We started off feeding him rice cereal and bananas for 2 days and then took a 5 day break because things got backed up and we felt like we were doing things all wrong.  We introduced Tyke to prune/apple juice and that got things moving again so we started back up with the solids.  Our second round of foods we have felt a lot more comfortable.  We studied up and got lots of advice from the sisters and feel like we're doing things right now!

We still haven't gotten a high chair for our little guy.  Stephanie and Seth are being generous enough to donate theirs to us since they won't be needing it anymore.  We really need to go pick it up but we're procrastinators and forget.  Tyke has been sitting in his bouncy seat which is pretty much a big no no when trying to feed the kid.  He goes crazy and kicks the entire time.  We don't have to worry about him blowing bubbles with his food, we have to worry about him kicking the food out of our hands! (which he did to Chad today at lunch, made a BIG mess!)  This kid can bounce, and last night he kicked so hard he gave himself his first "owie."  It didn't even phase him but we immediately put a stop to his fun.  He had blood everywhere for saying it was just a little nick on his heel.

Tyke is a champ at eating his rice cereal!  We fed him only rice cereal for 4 days and then we introduced him to carrots.  We let him choose what veggie he wanted to try by placing three different kinds in front of him and using the one that he grabbed.  I've heard how messy carrots can be but Tyke loves them so much we haven't even gotten a drop of them on his bib let alone anywhere else.

Green beans, well that's another story.  Tonight we tried green beans for the first time and we made a huge mess with them!  The look of green beans is disgusting and if I had had my picky way we would have thrown them in the garbage.  We want Tyke to experience everything though, so we made him suffer and eat them.  He didn't like them at all!  Every bite he was pulling faces and nearly gagging.  I'm not sure if we'll make him eat them 3 more nights or not (to get the 4 days in).  I think maybe we'll give it another try tomorrow night and see if his taste for green beans has changed.  I'm such a picky eater and Chad is not, we want Tyke to take after his Daddy!  So this boy of ours is going to experience everything whether he likes it or not!  I LOVE these faces he pulled while eating.  Chad and I had a good laugh at poor little Tyke's expense. =)

The other thing Tyke hasn't liked is a cherry slurpee.  I know, it's so bad to be giving our baby slurpee tastes but we just had to!  I think it was the cold that turned him off.  His face was priceless but unfortunately we didn't get a picture of it.  We do need to brag though, while drinking my slurpee he kept grabbing at the cup so I stuck the straw in his mouth to see what he would do.  Our 5 month old Tyke sucked the slurpee up the straw and quit when it got about a half inch from his mouth!  I was so impressed and proud and he was confused!  I don't know what we'd ever do without our Tykers and all the entertainment he gives us!  We love you buddy! =)