solid food

donovan began the world of solid foods when he turned 4 months. he has worked himself up to starting protein and finger foods this past week after turning 6 months. i have found that the ins and outs of solid foods are like brain surgery for me.

i have an incredible amount of guilt that donovan was on that crazy hypoallergenic formula for the first months of his life, and that he is still on formula (for those of you that did not know he had a dairy allergy). breastfeeding did not come easy to me, and it did not come easy for donovan and that is where the pump comes in.....pumping is just an added thing to do in a days time while taking care of the little guy, and feeding him, and feeding myself....and on a good day taking a bathroom break and so i did it for 4 months all the time freezing the milk in hopes that he could someday drink it. 4 months in i was adding more hours at work and had freezers full all over north carolina and pumping became even more of a thorn in my side and so i stopped. the very fact that i have just spent a paragraph justifying myself shows the guilt i have that donovan is now on formula. he did finally transition into tolerating dairy and quickly the frozen milk was gone...which means he is back on formula. it is a heavy burden to carry that i produce a perfect food for donovan and i chose to quit, but alas here we are...and so i try to transfer all that guilt into making his solid food.

i go all over town gathering organic foods for him to eat. i lose sleep over how to make sure that donovan is getting the perfect balance of foods, and shape him to be the healthiest boy in the whole world. and so weekends have turned into me steaming, grinding and freezing foods for donovan to eat. now my freezer is filled with frozen cubes of food that i have to choose daily and hope it is the right choice into molding my son into superman. for those of you that are worried about my sanity i will admit that i know this is ridiculous. logically i know there are millions of marathon running doctors out there that live to be 100 and were raised on similac and gerber purees, but emotionally i feel that i have stolen something from him.

this post was just supposed to be a quick few videos before i felt the need to pour my heart out...so here are somewhere near a million long videos of donovan trying different foods. he is incredibly cute and i can still feel the excitement of him trying each new food...but folks the videos really show nothing....there are very few funny faces or huge messes. what you will see is a boy who loves his food ....all food ...any food.......