Pastries at last

Look closely at this picture... can you see what she's done?

She's gone and eaten all of the egg salad right off her sandwich bread! This amuses the heck out of me. :) She liked the mango a bunch, but was lukewarm on the squash. Usually she's a little carb monkey, and I put the egg salad on the bread thinking that at least she'll get a little protein while she munches the bread down. Today, though, she was all about the eggs.

We had a lovely morning; we went to the Worthington farmer's market and walked around. A nice old man gave her a little pumpkin, and she's been carrying it around all day.

In fact, this was almost a picture of her with the pumpkin. Instead, she has her potato... the potato she's been carting around and playing with for several days now. I don't really understand what the deal with the potato is, but she really likes it. She doesn't try to eat the potato (but she does lick it sometimes), she just holds the potato and wave it up and down. And looks at it. Ah, the inscrutable, potato-lovin' ways of babies.

Ari is definitely a toddler now- she can walk all the way across a room, if she sets her mind to it. Now, if she can just get the hang of the talking.

Cute Ari moment for today: lately, she's begun to ask us to read to her. She'll come, book in hand and barrel her way into your lap, grab your hand, and put the book in it. Then, she'll insist on having you read the book to her over and over and over and over and over again, although she doesn't necessarily want you to read the pages in the same order all the time. Mixin' it up is more fun for her. :)

Today, I made her mad at me by only reading "We're going on a bear hunt" twice, and then insisting that I had stuff I had to do right now that wasn't sit and read a book... silly me.