I Wanted a Baby!!

For years we hemmed and hawed about having another baby.  We knew it would be lots of work.  We feared it might negatively impact the dynamics of our family.  We never dreamed it would wreak such havok on my body, but that's another story.  Finally, two Christmases ago, we decided, YES, let's have another baby... someone little and sweet who coos and giggles.  What we got, although wonderful, was not what we were expecting.  Lili is a baby who does not fancy being a baby.  She has something to prove.  She crawled at seven months, stood up a week later, and appears downright annoyed that we expect her to be a "baby" for an entire year. 

See the above photo??  This is a rarity.  Unless she is starving and being offered something exceptionally delicious, Lili will NOT take food off of a spoon offered by someone else.  She has also given up her high chair.  After wrestling her into it several times and receiving her telepathic message: What the helicopter do you think you're doing putting me in this chair designed for babies??, she is now in a booster seat at the table just like the rest of us.  And she is very happy about that.

So now I have a cupboard and freezer full of pureed baby food that are of no use to us.  Mashed carrot and swede, anyone??  Lili has moved on.  Sliced berries, asparagus, toast fingers with cream cheese or butter and small bites of chicken and fish are among her favourite finger foods.  Kids!  They grow up too quickly these days!!

Blackberries... I did it MY way!