Sunday, October 29, 2006

First "Real" Meal

Okay, we promise that this will be the last messy mealtime photograph of Benjamin! We just have been having so much fun introducing him to different foods and watching him explore them for the first time that we couldn't resist posting one more. He has been doing so well with all of the usual "baby" finger foods lately so we decided to up the ante on our little gourmand. This weekend we gave him some spaghetti, and a few pieces of meatball and chopped up broccoli.

After playing with the spaghetti and meatballs for, oh, 10 minutes or so, Ben decided to give it a try. He loved it and is definitely my little Italian boy! We had a laugh watching him observe his new slippery food, get it stuck to his face and highchair as he ate, and not even realize when some was hanging out of his mouth. Who knew what fun a few strands of Barilla could be?!? The best part was watching Barney stand at attention next to Benjamin's highchair waiting for some droppings to fall!!

2 comments:

Nana and Pop said...

Dad and I were just talking about how he's going to love his pasta like his Uncle Mike as soon as he gets a taste of it. Popsie (Ben's great-grandfather) would have been very proud to see Ben following in the Scarcella family tradition! How cute is he?

G and CC said...

Ben,
While spaghetti is important, we will really be impressed when you start eating polish sausage(guess who is dictating this message:)??? We love you, G and CC