Further experiments in solid foods

So we've been feeding Jasper rice cereal for over a week now, steadily thickening it so it's more like "food" than "drink." The results have been mixed. A couple times he's taken to it, including tonight, when he lunged forward at the spoon with a chomping gesture that made both Mummy and Daddy laugh out loud. Other times, after one bite, he clamps his fingers in his mouth, and we have to push the spoon through whatever opening we can find.

One thing for certain is that he really likes holding things. It's almost as though it's not eating the food that he objects to -- it's that he wants to use the spoon to feed himself, which he is so far from being capable of doing. At least whatever he doesn't eat, we mix with some milk, and he can drink it down at the end. And in this part he actually can do some holding.