A Day to Celebrate

Today was a big day for Eli. He finally got to eat something other than milk! I have a few videos of the 'event' and, of course, some pictures. Thought you might enjoy the show. Notice the bib-always a Tiger's fan :)

He ate rice cereal...well...it was actually a whole lot of milk, and a little bit of cereal :) I'm pretty sure he just thought it was milk from a spoon. I didn't mean to put that much milk in...I was just putting 'a little bit more' in, and I dumped way too much. Oh well...I guess it's better too thin than too thick, right?!

The spoon that he took his first bite with was a spoon that Edgar's grandmother gave to us. It was pretty special to us, and we are glad that we were able to use that.

Anyway, here's his first bite:

Here's a little more:

And then after he was done, he got to play with his spoon :)

And then the pictures... :)

"This eating thing isn't so bad!"

"Hey...now that I'm done eating, I wonder if I can make a real mess..."

Eli really did pretty good. I'm looking forward to adding this to our evening routine. I had been putting it off, but the last few days have been anxious to try. I think he was really ready for it. He's been sitting at the dinner table with us for a while, and really watches us eat. The evening strech is a little long for him (He eats at 4 and then doesn't nap or anything until he eats again at 8) so I think he was needing something to break that up.

Afterwards we 'celebrated' by going to Dairy Queen. (Okay...so there may have been another event we were celebrating...) Eli stayed in his seat and played for a little while while we ate.

Ryan, Ben and Carly joined us for ice cream. Amazingly enough, on my camera the red cone is not what sticks out-Carly's eyes are as blue as her shirt! It didn't transfer over to the blog very well, though...

Ryan held Eli while I ate my blizzard (Strawberry Cheesecake blizzard...yummm! and the only option when you can't eat chocolate...) Eli was pretty funny-he watched my spoon as it went from the blizzard to my mouth...I think he wanted some ice cream too :)

It was a very fun evening for us. Soon Eli will be eating everything we eat-crazy! I think I'll enjoy feeding him cereal while I can!