SteelyKid says "You know what? Bacon tastes good!"
We've had a hard time convincing her that anything that isn't either 1) crunchy, or 2) goopy is food. Cooked vegetables, she'll pick up, look at, and toss aside laughing. Cooked meat is similarly rejected. This week, though, we discovered that she'll eat bacon, which evidently is crispy enough to overcome its Meat Nature. Also, bread is ok, probably because in addition to being yummy, it can be ripped into lots of little pieces that can be scattered all over the table.
Emmy, of course, is insanely jealous that SteelyKid gets bacon. It's very hard to be the Queen.
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Funny that Violet thinks she looks more like her dad, since I waltzed over here to say she looks more and more like Kate every day.
And: BACON! BACONBACONBACONBACONBACON
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(Well, that and talent. But mostly the bacon.)
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