Anya is starting to wave occasionally. She sometimes does "so big" and has looked like she's trying to clap once or twice. But she Can. Not. manage the pincher grasp yet. Oh, it frustrates and confuses her. She tries to pick up food. She gets it in her palm. Success! Then when she puts it in her mouth somehow it always tastes just like thumb. She looks at her hand, and tries again. More thumb.
We gave Anya lots of neat stuff this weekend. When Ally was little we were so worried. "She doesn't have teeth. We have to be very careful what she eats. We don't need to rush her" HA. We've seen where that got us. Anya is interested in our food. She tries to pull our plates into her lap to inspect. So we give her food. She had a couple different types of pasta noodles this weekend. And some crackers. And a little piece of chicken that Rob gave her. And some banana. She hasn't even eaten a whole lot of baby food yet. There just isn't that much time to try it all out when you don't get home til 5 and she goes to bed at 7:30 or 8. But, the day care takes care of a lot of that.
She gets so excited and steals the spoon from me. Once she got so excited and lunged at me so quick that I stabbed her in the head with a bite of sweet potatoes. Yeah, yeah, it was one of those plastic spoons. She looked very funny with a dot of food on her forehead. But then she smeared it and it got all over and I had to throw her in the sink when we were done.
Oh and I almost forgot. Twice this weekend, she grabbed my eye and my cheek and pulled me close and slobbered all over my nose. My first Anya kisses! God, I love babies at this age.