The day August turned four months old, we mixed up a batch of rice cereal, just to see what would happen. Neither Alden nor Kato had been ready to eat real food at four months, but we had a sense that August, being a veritable beast, might have a different relationship with all things edible. And we were right. From the very first try, he lunged at the spoon with craven enthusiasm.
Today, we put him in the high chair for the first time and took him for a spin with a jar of mashed bananas.
The result was more glee. The jar was just too small. We soon moved on to mashed pears. Kato demanded to get in on the action. With Robbi’s help, he offered his brother a bite of the good stuff.
We monitored the situation closely for a while, but Kato was such a natural, that we decided to let the brothers do their own thing.
It’s probably good that Kato get used to doing chores for August. If current size projections hold, within a year or two, August will outweigh his big brother 2 to 1. Kato may one day look back and lament the day he willingly threw gas onto the bonfire.
We’ve got the same inverse age:size dynamic w/ our two boys. Angus was growing increasingly nervous about his threatened el primo status until I pointed out that even if Simon passed him in the height & weight categories it was impossible for him to ever eclipse him in age. The look of visual relief upon his visage was priceless.
Jack just “looked hungry” to me at 4 months, and we had the same result! Unleashing the eating machine! Love it.