Not eating solids!

I am firmly convinced that my child is too young to eat solid food. Her digestive system has been untouched by any food substance other than breast milk. Oh wait...don't forget about the "teething" apple we gave her this past weekend. I believe that 6 months is a good age to "start" solids- which means an occasional taste of solid food every now and then.

Lately; however, Keira has been giving the Jedi death stare to our food- she is concentrating so hard that I think the food may actual go to her. Well, today while Mike and I were eating dinner, Keira YELLED. Yes yelled. She wasn't crying or whining- she was yelling in her "I am annoyed" voice. I think she has had enough of being a bystander during dinnertime and has convinced herself that we are eating something far more interesting than we really are and she wanted some.

We tried to ignore the yelling for a minute or so; but then then it got really obnoxious. So in hopes of quieting her yells- I mashed up some bananas. While Mike was holding the spoon of mashed bananas, Keira was sitting there mouth agape like a little bird. The banana's consistency and thickness is far different than that of the sweet nectarine that is breast milk and thus a little foreign to her. When she swallowed the little that made it to her throat, she sat there with this look on her face that said, "What the heck did I just do?". The spoon was more of a teething toy than a spoon to her.

While the spoon and banana were in her mouth, she laid her deathgrip on the spoon and Mike had to pry it from her hands so that he could get more banana. As soon as the spoon vacated her mouth, she started whining again for more banana, not giving Mike anytime to get more. After figuring out that she just liked to suck on the banana for the juice, she spit out more that we put on the spoon. We abandoned the spoon for the mesh feeder, which she liked much better.

So here are pictures of my child "not" eating solid food. I firmly believe she is too young and does not have the digestive enzymes to eat this stuff.