Food

They say you are not supposed to feed babies until they're four months old, which in the case of our girls isn't until next week. But at dinnertime Miranda has been giving us such doleful looks, closely following our forks as they move from plate to mouth, that we figured that she must be ready to take the leap.



Oddly, Miranda seemed sort of confused by the whole thing. I remember Parker taking to food almost immediately, and I expected the same from his sister. But no go. Miranda managed to swallow a couple of bites, but she wasn't particularly interested, and she never got the hang of things.



Her sister, on the other hand, acted like she's been eating for years. A blind man could have gotten the spoon into her mouth, it was opened so wide. And she giggled and cooed and ate so much I had to make more. She finished with as much food on her face as in her stomach, naturally.



Of course, we can usually say the same about Parker.