First Solid Food!!

This morning we gave the twins their first taste of solid food! After getting ourselves all set up (which involved putting together the new high chair, cleaning Lily's old high chair, locating the straps for the old high chair, and arming ourselves with a camera in each hand, in addition to making the cereal itself!), we put the girls in the high chairs and gave them each their first bite!

In the high chairs, waiting for their first solid meal:



Lily waiting too:

Violet hammed it up for the camera while we were waiting for the oatmeal to be made:




Ella staring down her new challenge:


This is right after her first bite...she didn't think much of the oatmeal!


Violet's first bite:



And she spit it right back out again!


Neither of them thought much of the oatmeal. I don't think they are big fans yet! :) Both spit out their first bite! After a few bites though they started opening their mouths for us a bit more and accepting the new food. Ella even at one point started fussing because I was taking pictures and not feeding her!

Lily was all excited about this new activity with the twins! I think she's been waiting for this day that she can help with feeding! She jumped right in and gave Violet her second bite of oatmeal!


She did a good job! And then she jumped over to Ella to feed her:



She kept jumping in to help feed the girls! She really loves helping out!

Daddy giving Violet a bite...I love this face...it's the face we all make instinctively to get our babies to open up their mouths! I still do this without thinking when I feed Lily!


Ella being patient waiting for her turn:



Violet really had fun with eating after a while! I was concerned that she wasn't ready yet...but she really took to it and enjoyed the experience I think! (However I don't think she enjoyed oatmeal itself....just the getting fed part!) She had fun getting messy:



And then decided she wanted to take over herself:



The spoon was great for her sore teething gums!



Ella's turn to eat some:


She really was uninterested the whole time! This was her face pretty much the whole meal:


Until she decided that we were done, and she would eat no more:


This was the closet I got to a smile from her:

:) I hope tomorrow she enjoys it better! We'll be giving them oatmeal for breakfast this week, then starting next week I may start adding in a fruit or vegetable. Lily's first real food after rice cereal was sweet potato...any ideas on what I should try as the twins first real food? I've been thinking either sweet potatoes again, or apple sauce, or bananas!

One last picture to prove that Ella is capable of being happy in her highchair, taken this afternoon:

:)