If you know me, you know that I am terrified of choking and have often sworn that Thomas would eat pureed foods until he was five.  Okay, I was joking, sort of.  But the book says finger foods start at eight months.  So.....here we are.

He has eaten rice crackers (Baby Mum-mums - He loves them.)  And Baby Puffs, basically like Cheerios, but guaranteed to melt in his mouth for paranoid moms like me.  I have tried giving him little pieces of banana.  But they are slippery and I keep giving him small pieces because I don’t want him to choke, which makes it very hard for him to get them to his mouth.  So, today we tried broccoli.  It went great.  No choking.  I think he may have actually gotten five or six pieces in his mouth during the time I ate my whole sandwich.  Not a very fast process.  Let the messiness begin!