I'm sitting beside e as she eats her breakfast of cheesy eggs and pear. When we began in earnest to give her finger food a couple of weeks ago she could pick up the bits of pear or squash and even bring them to her mouth. But it seemed like she didn't know how to release them from her fingers to her mouth. Now she does! She wears a plastic bib with Dr. Seuss characters; it has a pocket to catch bits of this and that which don't make it into E's mouth. Last night we were eating the edible arrangement of fruit that K's mom sent E for her birthday. I put a slice of cantaloupe to E's mouth, thinking she would just lick it as she had juice bars, but no, it came away with little teeth marks! She seems to have figured out that's what those four little teeth can do now.
This is all good. When she starts daycare in December, she needs to be able to feed herself and drink from a sippy cup, so we are beginning to work on those skills.
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