Rice cereal!

We gave Nelia rice cereal for the first time on 12/4/09, so just a little over 5 months old.  Originally I was going to wait until she was 6 months old, but she has seemed really interested in food lately.  Needless to say, she LOVED it!  She actually does a really great job using the spoon and although a lot of it ends up on her face and clothes, she does actually eat quite a bit of it.

Her first bite:)

We gave her more yesterday and once again, she loved it!  We haven't noticed any reaction to it so we are crossing our fingers that solids continue to be successful. We will probably wait another week before we introduce anything else - and even then we will probably just add a little bit of mashed banana to the rice cereal.  I am so excited for her to really jump into solids!