Sam’s been eating his share of fruits and vegetables for the past 6 weeks know, and we’ve noticed that he keeps asking for more and more. So, we decided that it’s probably time for his to have something a little more consistent in his little belly. Up to now, Melissa has been making Sam’s purees from scratch which I must admit, have tasted very good so far. Sam’s now tasted peas, carrots, squash, sweet potato, pears, bananas and apples. That’s your basic start for any infants solid food phase, but now Sam was eating at an incredible rate. Every meal we would have to give more and more as he would cry when his portion was finished. He likes eating so much, that he gets impatient in between spoonfuls of food! I don’t even have time to give him some food, swoop the spoon back to his plate and then come back to his mouth before he starts wiggling in his chair, slapping the counter top, turning beat red and making grunting sounds through pursed lips! It’s funny to watch! 
Melissa picked up some chicken puree from a company called “La Mère Poule”, that translates to “Mother 
Hen” in English. It’s a company that specializes in frozen baby foods made from all natural products with nothing added. The ingredients for the chicken puree were – water and chicken. That’s it. Since I have this little policy to taste everything we give to Sam (yes that included breast milk 
), I was a little worried about how this would taste since it wasn’t homemade. I dipped a spoon into the gray, pale, lumpy stuff and slowly raised the spoon to my slightly shaking lips…and it was good. Melissa tried it next and was also pleasantly surprised that the kitchen floor wasn’t covered in our vomit. 
Now we had the final test: Sam. He was sitting there, expectant, in his high chair watching us eat what he knew was his food. He had a slight smile in the corner of his mouth as Melissa approached with the little bowl full of chicken paste. I won’t spoil his reaction to you in writing, but instead invite you to check out the clip below! We laughed and I hope you will too. Enjoy!
This made me laugh, I remember those days so well.
The best part was after we shot this vid and Sam actually gagged when he tried to swallow some of the chicken. We laughed so hard we were crying… and when we looked at him, he found it funny too
Laughing at my gagging son… that’s doesn’t make us bad parents…right?
Not at all, and you have loads more laughs to come.