Yum Yum Solid Foods

We started feeding the girls "solid" food about two weeks ago.  We've tried mashed up yams, green beans, avocado, butternut squash, and rice cereal.  During our first two attempts, I would say 80% didn't make it down either of their gullets.  Noemi, especially, still likes to help by grabbing the spoon and shoveling the food du jour towards her nose.  This afternoon, she just kept her mouth open showing off all the strange orange food on her tongue, like that was the final step of this thing you call eating.  Zora seems to have a slightly better handle on the chewing and swallowing.  But - it's all relative.