Rice Cereal--4.5 months

At his 4 month checkup, Samuel weighted 18.5 pounds.  He was at the top of the charts for height/weight (they were proportional), and off the charts for head size!  The pediatrician actually re-measured his head because it jumped up from 75th percentile at his 2 month checkup.

She said we could start feeding him baby foods, but I wanted to hold off for a bit.  We went through a few weeks of checkups and supplements and fussing over Danielle's weight at 6 months because she was dropping down in percentile and the pediatrician wanted to rule out any medical reasons for her not gaining weight.  I firmly believe that starting her on baby foods at 4 months revved up her metabolism and we wouldn't have had to go through any hassle if I had only given her breastmilk for the first 6 months.

Well, I didn't quite make it to 5 months because Samuel wanted to eat food so badly.  True, he's at the puppy stage where he's trying to put everything in his mouth, but when he sits with us at dinner he opens his mouth and looks like he wants to try our food more than anything.  So we gave him a taste of rice cereal at about 4 1/2 months.