Maddie's First Meal

It seems like, for the last month, Maddie has been hungry all of the time.  On the way home from Georgia last weekend I called her doctor and asked if I could start giving her rice cereal in addition to her bottles.  Since she is four months today (where has time gone) he gave me the go ahead.  We had lunch with Scott's parents, and I decided on the way home that we would give Maddie her first meal tonight.  At about 5:40 I prepared the little bowl of what looked like slop!  I put Scott in charge of the camera and got Maddie situated in her Bumbo.  We got out the much needed bib and the little bitty spoon and the fun began. 

This is before the first bite - clean and cute!

For the first several spoons she could not figure out what I was trying to do.  She looked at me crazy and spit all of the rice back out.  I then gave her some on my finger and she seemed to like it! 

I decided that the best way to get any to stay in her mouth was to give her a spoon and then follow it with a few gulps from her bottle - it seemed to wash the rice down before it could be spit out.

In the end, I think she got some of it down - plus about 4 oz of formula.  Maybe this will fill her up for a little longer!  When Scott came with the rag to clean her up she gave him a huge smile and a pretty big burp - satisfied little girl :-)