Avery Jo now eats baby food!

Kory and I decided we wanted to try making our own baby food for Avery. We got a cookbook for Christmas that has all kinds of recipes (not that it's too hard to cook and puree food right now). The book will come in very handy when Avery is a toddler eating actual meals, but it was helpful now too in broadening our ideas of what we could feed her now.

Our first food choice for Avery was butternut squash. It was really easy to make. We just cut it in half and baked it for 45 minutes then scooped it out of the skin and mashed it with the immersion blender. Then a quick trip through the sieve and it was ready to eat! We both tasted it of course, and actually we really liked it! We'll be making it again for ourselves soon.

As for Avery JoJo...she loved it too!

This is what was left of Avery's first real food feeding.

Look at that happy, full girl!

Here's a video of how the first feeding went. I'll warn you, there are no great faces or spitting actions. Our good girl just ate bite after bite, no problems.

I will say I have since fed her the same squash again and the feeding didn't go quite as smooth. She still ate it, but she occasionally shook like she got the eebie geebies. Anyone who knows Momma knows what the eebie geebies are and they aren't good! Let's hope Avery isn't as susceptible to them as I am and can enjoy many foods to come.