Miss Gourmand

She stole this apple from the fridge and rolled it around the house for two days straight.

Someone has discovered the joy of solid food. After placating us for three months, Miss Leyba has finally realized that solid food is delicious! She just wants to eat and eat… And eating more during the day means sleeping for longer stretches at night… what can we say?! We’re thrilled!

She now eats the following, pureed:

red potatoes,
sweet potatoes (adores!),
apples and apricot (loves!),
apples and plum,
butternut squash,
avocado,
banana,
quinoa and rice cereals,
apple,
pear, and
peas.

She likes to eat with a teaspoon and feed herself. We hand her the spoon with some food on it and she pops it right in her mouth. She then sucks and bites on the spoon… for a while. When she’s ready for more she usually throws the spoon towards us signaling it’s our turn to load it up again. She’s also very interested in “drinking” from her bowl (we use individually sized wooden salad bowls to feed her: eco groovy, toxin-free, and non-breakable).

She loves to drop her (adorable PVC-free) placement on the floor (over and over again)… and she tries to toss the spoon too if we don’t intercede fast enough. Exploring gravity is a near constant activity (for several months now). One of these days we hope this game will get boring, but only because we’re tired of picking stuff up over and over again. We love that she’s so curious!

Playing under the kitchen table is another fun game. Hours of entertainment there with empty yogurt containers (to roll around) and pots and pans and blocks and books. It’s THE place to be right now (when she’s not trying to climb the furniture).

(By the way, on our trip we discovered that it appears we can’t use restaurant high chairs anymore: Miss Leyba quickly discovered how to stand up in them and climb on the table. What bad table manners! She also loves paper napkins — evidently tearing them into little bits is akin to an out of body experience.)