Cheerios

Now that Madeleine is experienced at eating solid food (kind of a misnomer, seeing as it's all pureed fruits and veggies), we decided to let her try out Cheerios as her first finger food. I remember when Julia was a baby, Cheerios were a life-saver - a great distraction for her as she labored to pick one up and get it in her mouth, giving me a chance to have my hands free for a few minutes. Madeleine was a little iffy about the Cheerios at first, but after a week or so she seems to like the taste a little better. However, I'm not sure she's getting much chance to really taste them all that often - I'd say she actually gets one in her mouth about 10% of the time. She has gotten the hang of picking them up, but transferring Cheerio from hand to mouth is still a challenge. She usually starts out by staring at her Cheerios intently:





Then, once acquiring a Cheerio, she stuffs her whole fist in her mouth, hoping the Cheerio will happen to fall off once inside:



Though it often falls off somewhere else, like onto her bib:




Here she's got one stuck to the side of her hand and can't quite maneuver her fist to get it into her mouth:



So close!



Of course, she had no trouble grabbing onto the picture Julia made at preschool, and taking a few bites of that: