Trying New Foods: Part 2 (Sweet Potatoes & Apple Sauce)

Ok, everyone saw the first time we tried to feed K.P. his veggies. We tried carrots and found out quickly that he did NOT like them. We waited a couple of weeks and then tried something different: sweet potatoes. As you will see from the video below, he did NOT like them either! He kept coughing and gagging and he even pushed the spoon away once. Too funny. I think we might have a picky eater on our hands.

In an effort to give him some flavor other than rice and oatmeal cereal I decided to go ahead and try something yummier: apple sauce. Well, I didn't catch it on video but he didn't like that either! He coughed and spit it out every time. I finally decided to just mix the apple sauce with his cereal thinking that surely he would eat it that way. NOPE. He wouldn't touch his cereal after I mixed them together. So, in a last attempt to get him to eat something, I gave him his bowl of cereal to feed himself. I thought that he would get it on his hands and then put his hands in his mouth and eat some of it. WRONG AGAIN. He just played and smeared it all over his tray. Not once did he even put his hand in his mouth. It was as if he knew it was the cereal I was trying to get him to eat and he wanted no part of it.

This is the video of him trying sweet potatoes for the first time.

Here is a video of him playing with the bowl of cereal mixed with apple sauce after my failed attempt to feed it to him. Notice that he does not once put his fingers in his mouth.