A Little Tittle Tattle: Katy and food!

Katy has quite the love affair with food. Her newest thing that she gets SOOO excited about is cheerios. Well, technically they are Trader Joe's O's, which I just get because they don't have wheat in them (we are trying to avoid foods with dairy, wheat, soy, eggs until she is over a year). I can get her to eat almost anything if I just give her some bananas and/or cheerios between spoonfuls. And it's fun watching her feed herself the cheerios. On her very first try, when I handed her a cheerio, she grasped it between her little fingers and up it went straight into her mouth! That's my girl... a very quick learner! The first few times I put a couple on her highchair tray, she would get one in her grasp and then basically try to stick her whole fist into her mouth and somehow suck out that cheerio. But sometimes it would be stuck in a tightly closed fist... since she didn't want to open her hand and lose it! It was hilarious. And when they were all gone, she was still doing a picking up motion and sticking her hand in her mouth, as if she would magically have more! In only a week since she first tried them, she has become quite deft at handling them, holding one at a time between her thumb and index finger and gobbling it down, then eagerly waving her hands for another. It's a great way to keep her happy anywhere we go!!