Baby Food?

Audrey's palate is developing fast and she is starting to acquire a taste for spicy food. We have a recipe for spaghetti squash with grilled onions and peppers, marinara sauce, and spicy Italian sausage. As expected, she gobbled up the spaghetti squash (hey...it does look like spaghetti, thus far her favorite food), but somewhat unexpectedly, she also loved the sausage.

With Italian sausage under her belt, we've been spicing up other food she has been losing interest in. She has been turning her nose up at steamed broccoli recently so I tried sprinkling lemon pepper on it. She loves it.

Tonight, Kelly and I decided to get a rotisserie chicken from the grocery store for a quick meal. Audrey has had plenty of chicken, but only pureed in baby food until now. We decided to pick off a few pieces of meat for her to try and the result? Spaghetti might have a new competitor. I couldn't cut the meat off the bones fast enough for her.

I thought it would be funny to stage a picture and pretend she was eating the chicken straight off a leg bone. By the time I could grab my camera, she was picking the bone clean. We didn't think she would attack the leg with such vigor, and decided to take it away before she choked on a piece of cartilage or bone or who-knows what.

Next came the corn on the cob. We had cut some off the cob and put it on her tray but she didn't show much interest. She did, however, take a liking to my corn, covered with butter, salt, and pepper. I helped her for a while, showing her how to take bites, but she soon showed us that she could handle it on her own.

We finished with drinking water out of a cup. We've done this a number of times and she does o.k. with it but for some reason tonight turned into a giggle-fest. I caught the tail end on the video camera.