Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Rice vs. Oatmeal

I have been trying to give Gavin rice cereal for 4 weeks without much success. Today he went to the doctor because his eye was swollen this morning due to his cold. I asked the doctor about giving him regular food (fruit and vegetables) and he said since he was 5 months that was fine. He did tell me that I could give him any kind of cereal.

So we went to Walmart (because there is no Target here). We got a box of Oatmeal cereal, apples, pears, bananas, carrots, sweet potatoes, squash, green beans, and peas. I opted out on the prunes. I don't know anyone who likes prunes (why they are a baby food I have no idea).

We tried the oatmeal and it went much better than the rice. I am going to wait until next week and start him on sweet potatoes. I just set up his high chair. It sort of sucks that Brett is going to miss out on this. I will have to take pictures once he is done eating!!

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

take LOTS of pictures Kelly!

Tami said...

My baby was just like that. He loved oatmeal cereal but just couldn't see the point of rice cereal. We would barely touch that stuff. Oh, well, I guess they all have to have their little quirks, don't they?

Anonymous said...

We found that Lily didn't tolerate rice (it was making her vomit) but she loves oatmeal, and likes it even better when we mix the pears in with it.