Eating Solids

Laila enjoying her sweet potatoes

So Laila is now eating solid food! She hates the rice cereal, and cries whenever I've tried to give it to her... but I've found two foods that she does like (so far) - pears and sweet potatoes! She likes the sweet potatoes best, and eats them more than she did the pears. When I first started feeding her the solid foods at just about 5 months (after that first try when she was 4 months where she cried I waited a few weeks before trying again) she didn't actually swallow anything. I would just put some of the food in her mouth and she'd hold it there and then spit it out after a bit... after two nights though she started swallowing most of it, and now she eats about 95% of what I put in her mouth. Right now she doesn't eat a lot at once (maybe 1/3 of one of the very small containers), but that's okay! Right now I'm more focused on having her get used to eating solids while she still gets the majority of her food from breast milk and formula.
Anyway - it has been exciting! I am having a lot of fun with it - probably more fun than her, though she definitely likes it. When I feed her she seems to concentrate completely on the funny taste in her mouth, she gets so serious! Unless I play a funny game with her while she eats, that is.