Happy Birthday, Aunt Rena!

"Where's the party?"

Up til now, Hannah has been treating feeding time (rice cereal) like a game. She'd take a spoonful of food in her mouth, smile big, and let most of it dribble out of her mouth. Great fun, but not particularly nourishing. We mixed the food a teaspoon at a time, because she lost interest in the game pretty quickly.

Last night, she suddenly realized that she could swallow, and that this stuff was actually food. We went through the first teaspoon and she yelled for more. I kept running back to the kitchen to mix more teaspoons, with her smiling and hollering for more, until I finally dumped some of the cereal into a bowl and mixed a bunch (it's cheap).

Unfortunately, she also learned to blow raspberries yesterday, and can't yet see any reason not to do some between and during spoonfuls of cereal. This makes for messy feeding times. Our counterweapon is to keep her smiling, since her raspberry spray pattern is somewhat less far-reaching when she's grinning.