Demolition Baby

Well, the little angel has not only learned to crawl (was I REALLY worried about this?  I am insane), but now she is a crawler on crack.  Nothing is outside her reach, and she is exhilerated by speed.  Usually I can divert her by standing in ballet's first position directly in front of whatever she wants to reach.  However, I have to keep moving left and right to ensure she won't figure out how to go around.  Eight-month-olds are smarter than I thought.

There is one thing she can't figure out still, though...how to grab those little veggie puffs Gerber is marketing these days.  I thought they would be a good first solid solid food (as opposed to the pureed vegetables that everyone told me were solids - but apparently they are not REAL solid foods.  What a joke!).  The little angel doesn't use her pointer finger and thumb together to close over food. Nor does she rake.  All of those things the baby books and magazines talk about...no.  She uses two pointer fingers, and ONLY two pointer fingers, to try to pick up those puffs. And like Mr. Miagi catching flies with chopsticks, sometimes Babysan is successful in raising the puff two to three inches off the highchair tray.  Does she then put it in her mouth?  No. She does not realize veggie puffs are food.  Then again, they don't really look like food to me, either. Don't smell like food. Look like pretty pieces of colored styrofoam maybe (and they taste like that, too - I try all the baby food except the meat - YUCK).  I don't know. Maybe I should offer her something more appetizing. The real thing is that she just doesn't get that anything not offered to her on a spoon is something to put in her mouth.  She puts everything else in her mouth, but who knows.  I'm not too worried, because I assume one day she will be so hungry that she would put the cat in her mouth, and she will finally figure it out. It seems to only take one smack over the red head with the club of realization before she's all over that concept and on to the next.  If she's a little slow, she comes by it honestly. I am not all that quick with Excel spreadsheets, though they have been explained to me numerous times. It happens.