since we didn’t want to be accused of “… giving someone a Bud Light and then concluding from [ their dislike of it ] that that they don’t like beer…” we went ahead and rounded up a motley crew of earth’s best baby food. the merits of “hand mashing notwithstanding, we decided to go with good old fashioned jars of babyfood because, well, we’re lazy

and since banannas seemed to be a popular suggestion, we thought we’d try that first. see – your feedback at action!

goodbye real spoon and hello fingerspoon! despite initially seeming to like using a real spoon, today the results were the same as yesterday until we switched to the fingerspoon.

and then, like magic, odin was at least willing to give it a try. not too much, mind you, maybe a quarter of teaspoon of food – but hey – it’s a start. we tried both straight bananas and bananas mixed with a bit of rice cereal and the results were the same – mild, if not overwhelming interest. so, maybe next time we’ll try sweet potatoes.