Parties and first "solids"

This week we had a couple of parties and Aidan tried his first "solid" food!

On Friday, Mommy hosted her New Mom's group at our apartment, and Aidan was a wonderful host. He shared his toys with all of his friends, and decided (along with Jack, John and Yuxin) that his friend Grace was a toy - here is a picture of Aidan trying to grab her face! Grace was a great sport about it. :)

On Saturday, Mommy and Daddy gave Aidan his first "solid" food! It was actually a "rice cereal" made up of 1 part rice flakes, 5 parts breast milk, so it didn't look too solid to Mommy and Daddy. However it was a big move for Aidan! He sat in his swing, tasted a bit of the cereal on his lips, and then opened up wide for more! He even tried to grab the spoon himself and put it in his mouth (most of that spilled out), and he ate (or drenched his shirt) with a whole ounce of milk / teaspoon of rice cereal. Mommy and Daddy thought it was so much fun! We hope that Aidan will try poi in Hawaii over Christmas. However, he is going to have to wait to try anything more exciting than that untill he is bigger - but rice cereal (and poi?) must be exciting for him, since he has only ever had milk to eat!

On Sunday, Mommy, Daddy and Aidan all went to a holiday party at Dakota's house (one of Aidan's friends). The mommies and daddies had a lot of fun chatting and eating yummy food (the sweet potatoes were scrumpteous!), and the babies were on their best behavior - nobody made a peep of unhappiness until after 6PM! It was a fun night out for everybody.