Chew and Swallow

  I absolutely adore my baby girl, Kate.  She is my world.  (...As is her father and baby sister).  I would not change a thing about her.  Not one thing.  Like, for example, how she now likes to spit out her food because, well, she can.  Even though I now have to tell her at least 50 times a day to NOT spit her food out, the cute faces she makes are irreplaceable!  The face she makes while she gags on her food while I repeat over and over, "Chew and swallow!" may not be the cutest face but it sure makes me laugh...on the inside.
  For dinner today I made yummy zucchini lasagna which, I would like to mention, Kate has enjoyed in the past.  Not today.  To get her to take 10 bites of it I had to bribe her with chocolate chips.  The bribe worked but it took her 45 minutes to eat four strawberries and 10 bites of lasagna.  Thank heavens she now has a highchair to keep her in one spot, provided by the girls's Uncle Jared.  THANK YOU JARED!!!

  While she was savoring each bite of chocolate chip, Andrew called.  When I told her it was Dada, she promptly took the phone away from me and told Dada all about her day.  So adorable!  I would have taken a video recording of her babbling but... she had my phone.
  Even though this was one of Kate's more fussy days, I choose to deem it a good day when I look at her sweet face and remember I am lucky enough to be her Momma.