We started solid foods when you were 4 months and a week.

You like the taste, because you are eager to keep the spoon in your mouth. But hey, you still do not know what to do with food when it is in your mouth. You do not know how to swallow. It explains why you have been drooling for weeks now. You have no idea what to do with your saliva; you spit it out!

Neda said that we needed to keep on practicing, and that is what we are planning to do.

When you were 3 months and half, I already started smashing grapes, and giving you 5 drops of grape juice twice daily in a spoon. (baby spoons; metal steel spoons may hurt your gums)

Now I give you 2 or 3 teaspoons of grape (or apple) juice daily (3 grape berries, or one small piece of apple), mixed with the drops prescribed by the doctor (BioGaia, started when you were 3 weeks, because of your tummy pain).

I mix your vitamin D (D drops; 1 ml daily) with a very tiny bit of fruit yogurt, which makes 2 teaspoons of vitamin D/yogurt, and give it to you again with spoons.

You do a better job with liquids than with cereals.

You started with rice cereal, and I will keep you on it to the end of this week. Then I will give you something else.

You are the cutest creature when you make a mess. You insist on keeping the spoon with your tiny hands. Your hands get dirty with cereal, then you touch your face, your hair and your toys and…we have to wash them all. I learnt my lesson; I keep a napkin handy, don’t let you touch the food, and if you do, I clean your tiny hand and fingers immediately.