Rice Rice, Baby!

So it would seem that formula just isn't enough to support the ever growing Benjamin anymore.  While he was sleeping through the night (mostly) for a couple of months, lately the bottle of formula just isn't enough anymore to sustain him through the night.  So we started feeding him his first solid food - single grain rice.  It doesn't sound or look very appetizing, but he's starting to get the hang of 'real' food.  We've been getting a big kick out of feeding him these first bites.  At first his tongue just seemed to automatically push it out.  Then he progressed to squirting it out.   After a couple of weeks now, he's actually swollowing some of it.   Here he is doing his best Santa impression using rice as his beard and mustache.

I think he thinks he's funny.... and he is!   Hopefully we'll soon get to the point where we can actually fill his belly with this food stuff so he gets back to sleeping through the night.   YAWN.... 

Update:  Last night Ben did really well and ate the most rice he's ever eaten.  He still got up overnight, but he slept in a little later...  there's hope that we'll all get a full nights rest soon.