Drew is in Seattle today (Sunday) and Monday. He left at 3 p.m. yesterday so he could go to a banquet and hear what big-time journalism award he won. Turns out the investigative story he did on Washington Mutual's demise won best business story in the entire Pacific Northwest! He said the banquet was boring and it was not worth getting a baby-sitter.
So, wanting company, I went to our friend Catherine's house. She has a 3-year-old, Josie. Cat made us dinner and we had watermelon for dessert. "Why don't you see if Rachel likes it?" Cat asked. So she sliced the watermelon into tiny squares for Rachel to handle easily. And she left out the seeds.
Rachel loved it! Probably more for the texture than the taste, as Cat pointed out, but still, Rachel ate several pieces and smacked her lips, her sign for "I really like this, Mommy!" Then I gave her some small crackers and she ate those, too. AND she drank all her bottle last night. I'm amazed she hasn't gained more weight. She's 19 pounds.
This morning I gave her some slices of strawberry. Oregon strawberries (and marionberries, and blackberries) are the best reason to live in Oregon and I look forward to them all year, so I was hoping Rachel would find them delicious, too. She looked dubiously at the strawberry slices, then realized she could mush them up, let them drop INSIDE her bib and ruin her perfectly cute pink onesie, etc. She also ate a little of my scone, too.
Plus, she can now drink from a sippy cup! That was a big one for me, since all my friends with younger babies say their little ones have been sippy cup drinkers for months now. I'm glad Rachel finally got with the program.
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