Mmmm… Food

So today Valerie got introduced to banana, which is the first babyfood not to get the initial “what are you trying to poison me with?  Mmm… give me more please!” reaction.  Just went straight to the “yummiest food ever shovel faster” reaction.

Apples are good.  Pears are even better.  Squash is as good as apples, or at least close.  Prunes are awesome, maybe even as good as pears.  Sweet potatoes?  Bring it on!  But it may be that bananas beat them all.  Which is different, because Sadie never more than liked bananas.

Meanwhile, today Sadie got introduced to watermelon.  The farmstand had cut sections 59¢ a pound, so I grabbed the smallest one they had just for giggles.  I am not a big fan myself, though it used to fun to grow watermelons, which is touch here because of their long season.  Unless you grow the non-traditional smaller ones.

While I was making supper, I gave her some chunks of it.  She seemed to like it, and I found it unusually tasty as watermelon goes.

A short time later, when the corn on the cob and burgers were almost done, I look and there’s Valerie, in the exersaucer in the middle of the kitchen floor, with bits of watermelon on her head, hair damp in the front with juice.  More watermelon was on the floor and the saucer tray, looking as if Sadie had thrown up.  But not exactly; looks like she’d chipmunked it and then spit it out, probably smooshed some of it before we noticed.

So today Valerie got introduced to watermelon.  Juice, anyway, which she thought was yummy to get off the tray and lick off her fingers.  So much for one new food at a time!

But wait, there’s more!

While Deb was at the doctor, I made myself a ham and cheese sandwich for lunch.  For Sadie I took one slice of bread, smooshed it doughy flat, put on some mustard, slice of ham, a layer of cheese, slice of turkey, rolled it all up tight, and sliced it into thin wheels.  I ate the two crust ends.  Sadie ate almost every bit of the rest, leaving mainly a few bits of bread that got free… and one uneaten roll, which she got on the floor.

Deb later found Valerie gumming Sadie’s uneaten rollup slice.  She’s determined she too will have the good stuff as soon as possible.

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