He likes it! He likes it!

Yesterday we took Jack for his four-month doctor's appointment.

He stripped down and stepped on the scale and we were pleasantly surprised to see the Atkins Diet was doing wonders for him. He was using the little known, but quite popular "all breastmilk" portion of the plan and it was apparently working well.

Our little 10-percenter doubled his birth weight and now tips the scales at a plump 13 pounds 4 ounces. That puts him in the 25th percentile. I knew sticking with a shake for breakfast, a shake for lunch and a sensible dinner of, well another shake, with several shakes in between -- all of the boob variety -- would pay off in the end.

He's also in the 50th percentile for length and noggin circumference. So he's really quite average when it comes to that stuff. Thank goodness, because a pumpkinhead is not so attractive to the ladies, ya know?

But Jack's boobmilk-only days have come to a close. He will now refine his palate with the oh-so-tasty cereal once a day. It smells like wet cardboard and I am sure tastes about as good.

Our pediatrician said to start him on rice cereal, and since I am a stickler for following doctor's orders, start him we did. We bought a nice organic version from Whole Foods and mixed in a little mommy milk and away we went.

Josh and I (OK, really it was me) were very excited and got out the camera and the video camera to mark the occasion. Jack? He could not have been less impressed by the lumpy breastmilk. More came out of his mouth than went in, but all in all, it went well for his first try.

I present to you, photographic evidence of the still and moving forms.





Yes, I have been reduced to posting videos of my child eating on the Internet. God help us all when he learns to use the potty.