Jakson's First Experience with Food!

Jakson is 24 weeks today and we've marked this exciting date with something extra special: Jakson's first taste of solid food.  This first food came in the form of lightly steamed carrots as I'm trying something called 'baby led weaning'.  BLW is a method of feeding that let's Jakson feed himself from the very start of weaning, instead of giving him 'baby food' in the form of purees and mush.  I'm a big fan of giving Jakson food and letting him explore it on his own so he will get used to the various textures, tastes and the idea of eating much more easily.  However, I'm not set in stone on it and am thinking i will probably do a combination of finger foods and purees for the little man.  I just won't introduce the purees until he's at least 6 months (or another 2 weeks).  So for now I'll play with Carrots, raw cucumber and maybe some toast fingers?  Who knows, we'll see!

So, here it is in all it's glory, Jakson's first experience with Carrots!!

Do you want a carrot???

Hmmm...ok...let me see what this is all about?

It feels pretty weird and I'm not sure about the taste?

Now a few caveats on the video: yes I realise he's in a nappy AND sitting on the floor.  Don't worry, the floor is clean and we don't have a high chair yet.  But who needs a high chair when this little man was happy as anyone experimenting down low :)  We are waiting for the highchair to arrive as we ordered it over the internet so soon enough he'll be riding high!  And the nappy is just in case things got messy.  Why get an outfit (or a bib?) dirty when he's so happy to be sans clothes?

Another exciting event that happened today was Jakson attended his first 'sing and sign' class - which was awesome!  The class is basically designed to teach babies how to sign basic words/ideas through singing.  He LOVED it.  He was a bit fussy when the class started but as soon as the teacher started singing with her lovely voice he immediately tuned into her.  We learned signs for home, more, milk, duck, horse, and a few others.  And although jakson won't be able to sign these immediately the teacher said the earlier you start the earlier they are able to learn the signs.  So we're hoping it won't be long before Jakson can sign what he wants.  How cool will that be?