Cheerio's

I read in one of our baby books that Noah was the perfect age for some Cheerio's. I thought he was too young for them because they're hard and he only has two teeth. Babies chew with their gums so it's not a problem and while Cheerio's are "hard" they do dissolve quickly.

I put him in his highchair and dropped a few on his placemat and he literally spent 15 minutes carefully picking them up and examining them. I thought they would go straight into his mouth, but not once did he do that. I showed him the sign for "eat" and he just stared at me. I modeled how to eat it by carefully putting one in my mouth. I opened my mouth so he could see and chewed it up. He just laughed. I tried to feed him one by putting it in his mouth. He pursed his lips and refused. Finally I decided to put one on his spoon and feed it to him. It worked. He happily took a bite. (Apparently he thinks eating with your hands is unacceptable and he needs the spoon?!)

Once the taste of Cheerio hit him he made a face and looked at me like I was crazy. Huge amounts of saliva began to pour out of his mouth. When he finally swallowed he actually shuddered. Mmm...I guess this whole Cheerio's eating thing takes some time.