The Little Monster Loves Here Some Sweet Potato!

LM had her first big girl meal today and she loved every minute of it. Of course she looked like she had been playing paintball with swett potato mash afterwards, but she didn't seem to mind.
Recently she has been exhibiting all of the classic signs of wanting solid foods:
Watching intently when we eat, manipulating all manners of things into her mouth. trying to eat/suck milk out of all manner of inanimate objects. A few weeks ago we let her suck on some watermelon and she was quite pleased so we decided it might be time to let her start experimenting.

Lately she has been somewhat cranky. I thought it might be her teething kicking into high gear (and it still may be) but today grandma was watching her and she was a crank-monster. She sucked down her bottle and was nowhere near full so grandma decided to try out the baby food in the cupboard...and voila. Happy baby. Apparently she did the quiver-lip face everytime the spoon was taken away. That continued until she figured out that Grandma was going to give her more each time she took the spoon away. Now she seems to be the happiest baby on earth....

Moral of the story....I was apparently starving my baby. Just kidding, but it is nice to know that she really just wants more food. Must be going through a growth spurt.