Since Kaia started kindergarten yesterday, I suppose it’s only natural that as her mother, I have been thinking a lot about her life to date, reminiscing on past moments and fun with her. While I did look through a number of old photos and videos over the last 4.5 years, what I also did was go back to Chris’s master Google spreadsheet, detailing her feeding/eating/my pumping journey. I also included a tab for her solid foods eaten up to age 14 months, as well as a tab for first words. At some point, the words got to be so many all at once that I stopped keeping track; it looks like I stopped at the 76th word. Unfortunately I don’t have dates for those. But these are some funny things I had forgotten about that happened with solid food and words:
- After her first word “diaper” at about 10ish months, which we found hilarious, Kaia’s second word was “purple,” which is her favorite color next to pink!
- Her fifth word, which is a vegetable, was “beets!” She still loves beets today.
- Kaia’s first Chinese word was 面/mian (noodle)! This is very fitting for my noodle loving Pookie!
- “Weetbix” was her 21st word; she truly is an Aussie baby!
- Her 54st word, or phrase rather, was “Oh shit!” 🙁
- Her first solid food, eaten within week 2, had to be prune juice because her poop was so backed up! Her next solid food was not until she was exactly 6 months old on June 10, 2022, when she was given avocado. The next day, she had both alphonso AND ataulfo mango.
- About a month later, she had peach for the first time, which gave her a red mouth reaction. Luckily, it subsided, and the reaction never occurred again.
- She had her first cayenne pepper AND Thai chilies on July 17, 2022, at just over seven months of age!
- Kaia had her first durian, from Say Weee! and imported from Malaysia, on September 17, 2022 and liked it.
- On the same day she had her first taste of durian, she also tried hibiscus and lemon verbena in herbal teas separately and seemed to enjoy.
- The last new food I documented that she ate was just before she reached 14 months of age: this was croaker fish at BCD Tofu House in Koreatown, NYC! This was food #312!
It’s still so much fun introducing her to new foods. I hope my sweet baby always stays this open-minded with cultures and foods.