Epicurious

Hannah is an enthusiastic eater, but she has discriminating tastes.

Right now peas are her favorite food. At dinner time, she asks for them by name (beeeeeeeeeez). As this picture suggests, she also enjoys noodles. I think pasta is her favorite of these, but she'll eat rice and egg noodles. It seems the thinner the noodle, the more likely she is to eat it enthusiastically.

She's getting accustomed to using utensils, but these are not first in her order of operations. Most everything is finger food first and foremost. And yet last night, she decided she would dip her spoon into a cup of milk. This went on for several minutes before I intervened.

Yogurt continues to be a big hit with her too. We are getting Greek yogurt for her simply because it is fat-rich dairy product - perhaps the fattiest we could find. I forget the name of the company, fund we've settled on a honey flavored preparation that goes over real well - with Hannah and me. It is so delicious!

More words

And lots of baby talk. Hannah is speaking in complete sentences, but I only catch the occasional noun. It's super cute though and she is quite animated. "Kiki" is a recent verbal innovation of Hannah's. She uses itto refer to blankets. She has a favorite blanket (with which she sleeps), but she enjoys all blankets. In fact, she has a habit of grabbing blankets, throwing them on the floor, and then lying down on them to test them out. In the event of multiple blankets, she will repeat this exercise to exhaust the blanket options. She has also been known to give this same treatment to towels, even small hand-sized ones!

I'm somewhat shocked, but Hannah has added "Bert" and "Elmo" to her vocabulary. We don't have Sesame Street paraphernalia at home, so it must come through her day care. She has also mastered some animal sounds, including some of her own devise. When we ask what sound doggies make she pants like an overworked dog complete with her tongue hanging out. She also willingly makes cute appropriate sounds for monkeys, cats, and ducks. And I taught her to "caw" like a crow this evening. We'll see if that lesson sticks...

Hannah is also a much more confident walker and I would say she's more proficient too. She now wears hard-soled shoes, and likes to clomp around in them, high-stepping and all.

She also has a mouth full of teeth now. 11 teeth have appeared with 7 seemingly fully grown in. She has four molars that have started to come in, and there are still gaps for the incisors.