Sweet Potato

Last night we fed Teo some sweet potatoes--his first solid food. Although he has been very persuasively trying to convince us to share our solid food with him for months, like is usually the case in life, the realization of the fantasy did not live up to expectations. He gagged a couple of times and is clearly new at this whole swallowing thing. He did, on the other hand, do great stuff with the spoon. He's got utensil use down. We managed to get some sweet potatoes in his belly and some in his nose but most of them ended up on his face and his bib. Pretty exciting stuff. Today, sweet potatoes, tomorrow, mint-chocolate-chip ice cream. Well, not exactly tomorrow...but you get the idea.