being gone/pitfalls of eating

i had to go out of town for almost a week for a conference in la. leaving lucas at home was so hard! i cried when i walked into the airport and he and sue drove away. but, since i had my laptop with me, i looked at pictures of him every night before i went to bed. i also called and checked up on him a bunch, but it just wasn't the same.

since he can't talk, all of our communication is looks and actions. yes he does make a lot of noise, but not when you shove a phone in his face. he is only interested in eating phones, not talking on them.

i was so excited to come home and hug him again! it was the best feeling.


but he had gotten so big while i was away! he has definitely grown taller, and his actions have for sure progressed. he is so close to crawling (yikes!) and is more purposeful in all his actions. i know he had fun at his grandparents houses, but i'm so glad to be home and with my little man yet again.


one thing we have been working on since i got home is "solid foods." not that these foods are anything even resembling solids. we're working on rice cereal right now, and it is nasty, goopy, gross, runny and disgusting. lucas hates it, and i don't blame him.


he's really into the spoon and doing things like mommy and daddy. but the actual eating of the rice cereal is not fun. he'll always take a big first bite, but then he makes an "eww" face and pretty much rejects all subsequent spoonfuls.


i've tried making it different temps and different consistencies, but that doesn't seem to work. he simply does not like it. i think we're going to try veggies, and come back to rice cereal. anybody have any ideas?

maybe we should just skip baby food all together?