First Cereal

Tomorrow (12/20) is Brennan's 4 month check up, so we'll be able to update with his official stats (probably 75th %ile +) afterward. We had been waiting until we talked to Dr. Myers to start him on cereal, but given his eating history and general good health we thought it was just a formality, and we finally caved and decided to give him his first taste of cereal this weekend. Long story kind of short, here's why: when Brennan gets hungry for his bottle - like really hungry - he does this thing when he gets in feeding position (almost laying down), where he shakes his arms and basically pants/hyperventilates. In other words, he semi-freaks out with hunger and excitement. I should also preface this by saying that 90% of the time when we're eating dinner he is sitting on Theresa or my lap watching everything that's going on. Anyway, last weekend we were out doing some Xmas shopping and stopped somewhere to grab something to eat. Not long after Theresa had her plate put down he started doing the same arm flapping/hyperventilating that he usually saves for the bottle. So we figured he was looking for some variety. That, and he tried to eat Theresa's sandwich today at lunch. Seriously. He still has some work to do before he's at sandwich level, but he definitely doesn't seem to hate the idea of non-bottle food.