One of the things that we were told at Margaret’s 9 month checkup (oh, did I mention that she’d had it? She’s back on the charts for height and just barely off for weight. And her head circumference is still in the 70th percentile) was that we should start feeding her foods she could feed herself. We had already started a bit, with the rice crackers, but now we’re allowed to give her pretty much anything besides milk on its own, nuts (because of the size and choking hazard, not the allergy problems), eggs, and peanut butter. So I have been slowly introducing different things.
We started on cereal puffs, scattered on the tray of her high chair.
She thought they were pretty neat, but wanted close watching.
As you can see, she’s working hard on picking them up between finger and thumb. And getting them in her mouth. They have a tendency (deplorable) to migrate into her front pocket when she has one, or just down her front when she doesn’t.
She is also adopting a variety of modes of getting them into her mouth. Here you see pictured the “shove my whole hand with cereal puff inside fist into mouth; hope that I can get the cereal out” method. There is also the “pick up a handful; bring hand to mouth. Open mouth, open hand, wave face over hand and see what sticks” method.
When she does this, I laugh at her. And then she looks at me like this.
I feel chastened.
That last one is quite the elvis impersonation...
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