Sweet! Peas!

We are having so much fun seeing which foods Mitchell likes/dislikes! We can only introduce one new food every four days, in order to be able to isolate any foods that he might have an allergic reaction to - luckily none so far! :) The books say to start them on veggies rather than fruits. The theory is that once they taste the sweet fruit, babies will no longer want to eat dull veggies. I did start squash first (as you may have seen on an earlier video), and then sweet potatoes...but then it was either peas or bananas....and I just couldn't resist. I just HAD to see his reaction to fruit. He did NOT like them! I should've video taped him spitting them back at me :)

Last week while we were in Maine I finally gave in and decided to give him the peas that I brought along. I hate peas...so I just knew that Mitchell would hate them too. I mean, what kind of kid likes peas and not bananas! Apparently, MY kid! :)

See the above video that we took last week of Mitchell's first taste of peas.

Now before you get too concerned about my child never enjoying a banana split (you know how much is mom loves dairy queen!), the books also say that it takes 18-30 tries for babies to get accustomed to new tastes. Sounds like a load of BS, I know, but I think it's worked with the rice cereal. He actually enjoys eating it now! Hopefully he'll "acquire" the taste for fruit.