Welcome to the Cutforth Family Blog. This blog provides insight into the lives of Dave, Shawnna and Kaitlyn Cutforth. Of course, since Kaitlyn is the newest (and cutest) member of our family, most of the focus is on her development and the fun things we do as parents.

Tuesday, January 08, 2008

New Foods: Carrots and Sweet Potatoes

Kaitlyn feeding herself carrots Kaitlyn's face after eating sweet potatoes for the first time

On Friday, Kaitlyn ate carrots for the first time. She was a little apprehensive at first, but quickly realized that they tasted good and ate the entire 2.5 ounces. We also gave her a spoon to play with (picture above, left) since she started to grab at the spoon we were using to feed her. That was a successful way to occupy her hands and give her a chance to practice holding a spoon and putting it in her mouth - the first step to feeding herself.

Tonight, we continued the process of introducing a new food every 4 days by giving her sweet potatoes for the first time. It probably goes without saying that they were a big hit as can be seen by the happy face in the picture above, right. The video below shows just how eager she is to consume all of the sweet potatoes. Check out the tongue action - too cute :-)

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