I thought, what the heck, let's go to Boston Pizza for an early supper today. It was about 3 o'clock so I knew it wouldn't be too crazy busy. I came armed with the following: bottle, sippy of water, jar of peach/oatmeal, banana, container of puffed wheat snacks and an assortment of toys. This is really the first time taking Kailey to a sit down restaurant since being out of her bucket. She loved the idea of sitting in a high chair that wasn't hers. She was very interested in the decor (neon lights and ceiling fans are her thing apparently). She was so proud to sit there and munch away at her finger foods while watching all the action. When our meals came she really acted hungry and she ate the entire jar of baby food, had some banana chunks, some shredded carrot and a taste of cooked egg yolk off my plate. (I had the pecan chicken salad) She was good as gold and we are both so impressed. We were only there for a little over an hour but for her to sit in the chair the entire time and entertain herself was still impressive to me. We will definitely do this more often now.We then took her to her favorite place - Wal-Mart to pick up some new bath toys. She is out of her kid tub and is having her baths in the big tub so we needed to get her some more toys to play with. The last few trips, I have taken her down the obnoxious singing toy aisle and I noticed the last few times she really was excited with these dancing turtle toys. The last time I turned it on she started a full body dance routine in the stroller that I thought was a fluke. We took her down the aisle and she saw the toy and her eyes lit up and BOOM, she was in full body dance mode. She gets her arms waving, legs kicking, rocks back and forth on her booty and rolls her eyes back and shakes her head with this massive smile (sticks her bottom jaw out and exposes her teeth). This is not a fluke!! We tried this 5 times throughout the shopping trip. The turtle is sporting an Afro, gold chains and a track suit and sings...ready for this? 'Get down on it'...lovely. She looks like a fish out of water and it brought tears to our eyes we were laughing so hard. SOOOOO FUNNY!!!
She has been getting bored with some of the food lately so I made a batch of mixed fruit (peaches, honey dew, cantaloupe, strawberries, blueberries and banana), yogurt and oatmeal and she LOOOOVES it. Next up, I will make a chicken, carrot and cheddar mashed potato meal for her. I am also going to give broccoli and cauliflower a try. One thing is for sure...she is making me eat a whole lot better now. She loved her chunks of cantaloupe today. Her big thing right now is to eat when we are eating.
