Lauren Loves Bananas

Apologies, it's been a little too long since I posted. In an upcoming post I'll give you Lauren's 9 month stats. That should keep you on the edge of your seats.


This video is Lauren eating finger foods! This is a big development for us, she is now much more interested in finger foods than in baby food; I had no idea that the baby food stage would be so short. We still try to get some in there because most of the finger foods never make it to her mouth, but she's typically not happy about us coming at her with the spoon. She wants to do it herself, but she's not quite there yet. Her pediatrician says that she has an excellent pincer grasp for her age (the grasp needed before they can start on finger foods). Our little baby is an excellent pincer! We're so proud!


Lauren's runaway favorite finger foods are these organic apple puffs that are kind of like Cheerios (but puffier), and bananas. The kid loves bananas. She can often go through a whole banana at one sitting, which seems like a lot, and it is, but please remember that Miller ends up eating about half the bananas off of the floor, and the other half is stuck to Lauren's face and the rest of her body, and then often to Sean's and my work clothes. She also eats carrots, broccoli, a little egg this morning, grapes, grape tomatoes, sweet potatoes...we're introducing more and more every day. It's really fun to watch.


Lauren displays some of her other tricks in this video, like clapping her hands, making noises with her hand against her mouth, and loosely signing the word "finished" from American Sign Language. We've really only taught her "more" and "finished." She pretty much just claps for more (the signs are kind of similar), but finished she has down.


I know I say this every time, but Lauren is really a blast right now. More about her current goings on in my checkup post. Wait for it....