Hungry Hungry Hippo!

Quin's getting pretty good at this whole eating solids business. He's so good at recognizing that food is coming his way that the moment he sees the food, he drops his jaw and opens that pie-hole so wide that you can nearly see his internal organs. It's looks something like this:

Or for those of you who are picky about species, it might look a little more like this:


When we started solids, we started with the standard rice cereal. But then he got super constipated (why do new parents love talking about poop so much?); the poor little guy spent all day groaning in pain and blew up like a balloon. The easy remedy for that was some apple juice a couple times a day and some pureed prunes at dinner. While he really likes the prunes, when he gets the first bite, it takes a minute to remember that, and he makes faces like you just inserted something totally unmentionable into his mouth (see, there I go with the ka-ka-poo again). Then those taste buds kick in and we're off and running. Here he is before that taste-bud-to-brain-signal is fired:


When all is said and done, prunes and rice cereal is everywhere, including his face, hands, feet, shoulders, stomach, kitchen table, and his Bumbo seat where we feed him.


For more pictures of Quin's latest eating adventures, as well as photos of him wrestling with first mate Sagan and a day at the park, check out the bottom of his Picasa candids photo album.

And I promise that a video clip of his first try at solids is coming soon. We've been so busy having fun feeding Quin that we haven't had any time to put the video together.

Also, 9 new portraits have been added to Quin's Picasa portraits photo album, in case you've already looked since the last post. I took a few more after making the last post. They feature him sitting up on his own!