Tricking the tricker...

Claire - you did the cutest thing yesterday during lunch. I was trying to feed you homemade bananas and carrots to go with your rice. You're not a huge fan of certain vegetables. Lately, you only seem to like peas and mashed potatoes. I would alternate giving you bites with banana and bites with the carrots in hopes to trick you into eating more of your vegetables. Instead, you learned how to trick me back. With every spoonful - you would pin your lips closed. I would prod the spoon at your lips making happy sounds, which would leave a little taste of the food on the spoon. You would slip your little tongue out from your lips, taste the food, and if it was banana you would open your mouth and let me enter. If you tasted carrots you would keep your lips closed with a firm determination on your face to not let them in your mouth. You're getting smart and tricky my little girl!