Good Eater

Ellie is a great eater!  She loves fruits and vegetables.  Her favorites are green beans, avocados, green apples, sweet peas and blueberries; but she will eat anything you give her.  Her least favorites - will-not-touch type of least favorites are - any and all baby food in a jar, plastic container or box (she is not particular).  Which would not be a problem, except that Daddy and I just bought a TON of baby food (Food Lion was having a sale...)  Isn't there a Hollywood diet where stars eat baby food to lose weight?  Anyone want to try this diet?!

I made fresh lemonade with real lemons and sugar this evening and poured some for Daddy.  Just for fun, because Ellie loves raw lemons, I gave her a sip from Daddy's glass.  Ellie seemed to like it.  Daddy was standing there so I told him that his lemonade was approved by the baby backwash technique.  He thought that was just fine and let her have some more.  I went back into the kitchen to get dinner out and I hear a frantic, help from the dining room.  Apparently, Ellie REALLY likes lemonade.  She fussed when Daddy tried to tried the glass away and grabbed onto it stretching her neck way out to get her mouth clamped down on the edge, fingers claw-like and securely along the rim.  I pried her off, to Daddy's relief and as she screeched for more,I poured watered down lemonade into her sippy cup.  I guess we have another favorite.

One more new thing - when I shared Ellie's bath every night, along with the occasional sinker stinkers, she would empty her bladder.  Don't ask me how I knew, just suffice to say, I knew.  Now that she is bathing on her own, I just assume the warm water would continue to stimulate the relax mode.  No, all that was just for Mommy.  This evening, I let her dry off nekid, like I always do, for 5-10 minutes.  She crawled over to the gate at the door, stood up, squatted and proceeded to release at least a quart of fluid.  I just watched, flabbergasted - I've never been know to be a quick thinker.  I called Daddy, but he is in charge of the stinkers...  I cleaned it up, myself.  Wouldn't you know it, the entire time I had had a diaper in my hand, ready to put in on her tiny bum when she had finished air drying. DUH!