I see...

Penny's new thing is to say "I see..." whatever. She has said "I see Daddy" before, but today she was pointing out all kinds of things including "I see a dog" when reading one of her books. She is just changing so fast. I swear she picked up maybe 10 new words today. It's MADNESS (one of our fav's)! In addition to using sentences more and more (Boo ride the horse), one of the coolest developments is her ability to tell me things that she wants. This afternoon I was eating a bowl of Crispix with rice milk. -- Incidentally, as a consequence of going dairy-free for so long there, I have learned that different cereal tastes better with different types of milk. Banana-Nut Cheerios and soy milk are awesome. Rice milk goes great with Crispix and various Kashi cereals. Lucky Charms really needs to be plain old cows milk. Anyway. -- I have read that babies/toddlers like rice milk because it tastes the most similar to breastmilk. Penny kept asking for a "bite" of my cereal and she was just slurping up the milk off the spoon, although of course the milk was by then Crispix-flavored. But then, she started asking for "apple," so I cut her up some. She'd ask for apple and then she'd say "bite" when she wanted cereal or "spoon" when she just wanted to slurp the milk. It was SO cool to be able to give her exactly what she wanted to eat with each bite, and I'm sure cool for her too.

Also on the eating front, Penny is no longer a self-imposed vegetarian. Over the last two weeks she's started eating meat and is in fact kind of on a meat jag this week, somewhat shunning other things in favor of meat. She's eaten ham, chicken, turkey, pork chop and pork loin (in fact, "pork" was one of today's new words). Oh, and some spaghetti too. I need to make a beef roast to see what she thinks of that now. We're planning to eat some of the deer Tray killed this weekend tomorrow night, so hopefully she'll like venison too.