Nora Evelyn McGowan

I’m just sick that we didn’t get a picture of this, but Nora has taken a definite stand on pickles. During a snack of Cheerios while her mom and I ate dinner, I thought I’d offer Nora a small piece of my pickle. She took it in her mouth, made a face that screamed “this is awful!”, and spat it out. She’d never spat anything out before and I think she was mildly confused by the way her normally loving and supportive parents were hurting themselves laughing at her misfortune.

She refused the next two Cheerios as well until we gave her some water to cleanse her palate & wash the despised taste of pickle away.

I apologize for the mealtime theme this week, but eating is kind of a big deal right now. Here’s a picture of Nora taken right after she’d eaten her last bit of dinner (oatmeal, applesauce, and self-fed cheerios). Note the clean placemat, note the clean baby! Please pay no attention to the Jen on the floor. I’m not explaining that. Nope. Not me.

Nora’s recently learned a cool new trick: feeding herself. So far she’s eaten banana (which left a terrible mess), rice (which left a TERRIBLE mess), and peas (which left a more or less manageable mess).

clearly the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree(s)…

Nora had oatmeal with blueberries for lunch today and heavens is blueberry hard to wash off a wiggling baby!

So what does Nora eat? Yesterday she had a lovely dish I like to call `peanoa’ (mushed steamed peas in very lightly spiced quinoa). So far she’s had (in addition to breastmilk, of course):

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