Breaking Bread

Road trip! At 8 months, we celebrated Niko’s first tooth by introducing him to some actual solids. I’m talking non-mashed, use-your-gums-and-ridiculous-amounts-of-saliva kind of solids. While visiting his Aunt Ariana in San Francisco, we fed him some delicious sourdough bread from Basque Boulangerie in Sonoma (we kept the wine for ourselves).

Auntie A made sure his bread-nomming technique was ship shape.

Since his first food was avocado, we thought he might be ready to try a black bean burrito with avocado in it. He seemed interested in Megan’s lunch from Papalote Mexican Grill, so we thought, why not! Turns out we were witness to the first of many burrito face-plants.

That said, he seems to have an equal affinity for eating his own shoes, so I won’t go thinking his tastes have become so refined…


Next dispatch, we’ll be reporting again from the East Coast!

First Food

When we took Niko in for his 6-month check-up, his doctor asked what we were feeding him. When we explained that he was still eating breast milk, she exclaimed, “Feed that boy–he’s hungry!” For the record, our big boy was weighing in at 18.3lbs, the 65th percentile for his age. Certainly big, but at the six visits prior, he was consistently topping the scales–weighing in between 93rd and 96th percentile for his age. So we took him right home and prepared his first “solid” meal, avocado mashed with a bit of breast milk. We used the breast milk for two purposes: to add a familiar flavor to this first meal, and to create a soft enough consistency for our toothless wonder. He loved it! His eyes lit up and he grunted with delight at every bite. We opted to avoid rice cereal (still haven’t fed him any), despite tradition, because, well, it’s boring. With so many rich and bold flavors in this world, why eat fortified rice puree?