Our Little Gourmet

Baby is getting really dexterous at picking up pieces of food with her fingers and feeding herself. When we go out to eat in restaurants, she can feed herself small chunks of bread, soft vegetables and even slivers of chicken. When we are at home, we mostly still scoop up food for her in her spoon and then let her bring the spoon to her mouth herself. (But the little gourmet won't feed herself food that she doesn't like - we'll have to spoonfeed her on those occasions.) These days, besides lunching together, we're also trying to make it a point to dine together as a family.

Here's baby trying to feed herself cereal:

After a strawberry feast (sans clothes, heh heh), baby looks like she is promoting a new type of lipstain: