"I can eat stuff!"

Now that Josie is able to accurately grab things and move them from hand to hand -- to mouth -- we have to be a bit more careful about what we give her. No more plastic grocery bags, things Stevie regularly has in her mouth, or full beer bottles. It is worth it to see her playing more interactively with stuff though... she particularly loves her stuffed dragonfly with the crinkly wings (which we inaccurately refer to as "the bee") and her linking rings:

 

 

 

She's doing great eating her rice cereal, too. She started out by obsessively watching us eat and drink (she still does that). So we were making a big deal out of it, taking a bite and saying "mmmmmmm" and she wouldn't smile or react at all, she just kept obsessively watching us. So we figured she was ready to try solid food. Well, "solid" might be a stretch -- her cereal looks and smells like wallpaper paste -- but you know what I mean. So we tried it and she loved it. We doubled the amount within three days and she gobbles it all up! Unless we take too long feeding her, then she gets bored and wants out of her seat and kicks her feet and cries and tries to hit the spoon out of your hand. It's a delicate balance of feeding her as fast as humanly possible without choking her and while keeping her as clean as is reasonable to expect. Needless to say, dinner is a two-bib event!