Caroline is a champion eater. We started her on baby rice cereal right at six months and she devoured the first bowl. From there we moved on to smooshed avocado and that was a hit. Next was green beans, sweet potatoes, broccoli, carrots, butternut squash, yellow squash, corn…you name it, I pureed it. And she inhaled them all.

Right around 10 months, I decided we needed to expand her palette and introduce the most kid-friendly of all the foods…Cheerios. And it was a game-changer. She may have loved pureed veggies, but she looooved Cheerios.

What I love about Cheerios is that I can strap her into her baby seat and put a few on her tray while I run Finnegan outside, or while I go to the bathroom. She is a happy clam with a few in front of her. She gets right down to the very serious business of eating.

Until of course she drops one…then we get this.

And this:

You can tell she is mad at herself for letting that deliciousness become fair game for Finnegan.

Then we asked who wanted more Cheerios, and got this. More, please, Mom!

Yes, please, and thank you. 🙂