Now, granted, Sophie has been eating “real food” (if you can called pureed mush “real food”) since December, but it just occurred to me that her initial experiences with both the spoon and various entrees may be entertaining for, well, my mom and perhaps one or two other people on the planet. (Sorry, travel readers…. a snazzy Dubai report is coming shortly…I promise!)

In the following video, she takes her first bites ever, and obviously has NO trouble adapting. Mommy stands by with syrupy encouragement and lots of verbal applause:

And here, we survey a few of her “firsts”… note that the parsnip scene comes to an abrupt end as my camera battery picks a poor time to beat the dust:

More travel news soon… really! Since our last report, we have jetted to Dubai and back to California… Sophie’s passport is filling up!

If you have just been sitting around wishing you could see Sophie eat her toes or stick out her tongue, now is your Big Chance. (I’m not denying that this is simply a little appetizer to get you ready for Christmas photos…).

No really, someday a travel theme will return to this blog. Someday. We don’t know when…