Adventures In Rice Cereal

For those of you out there with babies, you already know that 5 months is the official kick off time for rice cereal. For those of you who don't already know, rice cereal is the first food babies start eating. It's basically flakes of...well rice I guess, that you mix in with milk and feed to baby. Personally, it looks disgusting but I have been told that babies are to eat it in anticipation of the good stuff to come (pureed peas, carrots, etc). So, needless to say Caleb recently got his first taste of rice cereal. Most of it he spit out (who can blame him) and ended up absolutely covered. He doesn't look to sad about it though, or like he will miss the calories either.

Day 2 we got smart and used the bib, this worked a little better and it's possible that a tiny bit more actually made it into this belly.
However, we still needed to follow up with a quick scrub down in the kitchen sink.
In other news, Brad finished his training for Arlington Fire Dept (yay) and starts on a regular shift Monday. Last week they had Family Night at the training facility and we got to go see him in action.

Caleb took it all in calmly from his stroller (possible sign of a future firefighter?).
By the end of the night he was so overwhelmed with excitement he could hardly contain himself.