Adventures in eating

Picture this:

Piper's sitting face forward on my lap. Just in front of her is a bowl of Chocolate Trifecta ice cream with rainbow sprinkles that I am stirring around and around (I prefer soft serve, so I make it myself with some elbow grease). Piper is staring at the bowl. She's talking ... mmm's, and ga's. Even an ah-goo here and there. I take the spoon and put some ice cream on it and bring it up to my mouth. As I lift the spoon from the bowl, Piper opens her mouth in anticipation and talks even louder. She does this with every bite I take.

Oh yes, our little one is all of a sudden VERY into food. Everything we put into our mouths is interesting - and she wants some.

As far as what Piper puts into her mouth, I decided about a month ago that I wanted to make her baby food and ordered a Beaba Babycook. It arrived last week, and with last Thursday also being the king of all food holidays, we decided that the grownups shouldn't be the only people living out gastronomic fantasies and broke out the mini appliance to make Piper applesauce to mix in with her cereal. In short, she loved it. It's hilarious because when she's into what she's eating, she makes lots of noise. That's how I could tell that she liked the oatmeal and multi grain cereals way more than the rice cereal ... she tells us all about it. With the apple added to the cereal, her noises grew louder! Yesterday we added pureed pears for the first time, and so far, I can't tell which she likes better, but she definitely likes them both. And even though it may not look it from this picture, she's getting a lot better at eating. She knows to open her mouth when the spoon is coming in and way less is coming back out. She's an eating machine.

And with all that eating, she's doing a great job of maintaining the back fat rolls and butt cheek cellulite. Bananas are next and then we'll be onto veggies! Honestly I enjoy every minute of feeding her since it's so blatantly obvious how much fun she's having throughout the process :-) I'm also almost done a great book on raising an adventurous eater - Hungry Monkey - and am really looking forward to when she can eat what we eat, just mashed up. For those with little ones, and little ones on the way, I highly recommend it. Not only is it a quick/easy read (perfect while pumping!), but he ends each chapter with recipes. I've yet to try them, but am looking forward to it!