Sunday morning is usually daddy’s ritual to make pancakes, it is baby Haileys favorite! This morning I place her plate of cakes on her high chair and added syrup for the first time. Hailey usually eats with her fingers and the syrup is so messy i dont give it to her. I fed her the first bite with a fork to see if she noticed the difference. Sure enough her face lit up as she says hmmmmm! I put the fork on the counter, and Brad and I began to dig into ours. She just sat watching and would not pick up her pancakes? She is the queen of food and especially pancakes, I was confused why she was refusing to eat them? She was looking at the fork I put on the counter and although her vocabulary couldnt put together “mommy give me the fork” , i could sense thats what she wanted. I laughed to my self, and said “Hailey your just a baby, you dont know how to use a fork”! (She has never even held a fork let a lone try to feed herself). Sure enough she picked up the fork in her right hand jabbed a piece of fluffy cake and aimed for her mouth! I was in shock she was refusing to eat with her fingers and wanted to use a fork like mommy and daddy! She fed herself with a fork eating the rest of her breakfast. I of course had to get this on camera, what an exciting accomplishment. This is why i love being a mother, its at moments like this that are so special. My little angel is smarter than i thought! Just when I think I have her figured out she knocks me down with a suprise. Thats my baby!!
