*** Quoting Andy Ball from a message to Carol Shenkenberger ***


AB> Hello Carol,

  CS> ...another parent told us to try a hard toasted bagel
    > and that worked well though was a bit of minor trouble
    > to cut and toast up hard.

AB> I may give that a try later today when she wakes up... if I am conscio
AB>  I slept through breakfast yesterday.

See how it works!  She should like them just as they are (no butter etc)
for a ¨teething toy you can eat too!  My work hours had me use the store
crackers more ¨often (the hard ones for this stage).  I didnt have a
toaster them days so it ¨was just a weekend thing to do those in the oven.

  CS> Depending on what you have bee feeding her, this is
    > the stage to widen the diet out quite a bit if you
    > havent. If you do not, she will become a 'picky eater'

AB> During a recent check-up, the first thing that her cardiologist said w
AB> he saw her was "Well there's nothing wrong with her
appetite!"  He's r
AB> too: she'll eat any- thing that comes within range.  She pulled a clas
AB> face when I gave her a (slice of a) black olive though!  :-)

Hehe well, some things she will not like.  

    > talk and she was walking well before this age).

AB> Ah.  This one's cruising, but not walking.  Chatty occasionally but ve
AB> few discernable English words. She has mastered a few ASL signs.

Charlotte walked really early.  One day, I came home to a panic'd Don.  He
¨couldnt find her.  Then we heard a little giggle.  She'd learned to roll
over ¨and over and over to chase the cats.  Landed under the sofa.

She skipped the crawling stage except for maybe a week (if that).  She
stood up ¨one day, walked the next, and ran 3 days later (after the cats). 
2 days later ¨my patient and long suffering cats, learned how to leap to
the top of my china ¨cabinet .  A day after that they learned how
to claw the books out of the ¨top shelf of one of my bookcases.  1 day
later we bolted them all to the walls ¨so she couldnt turn them over trying
to climb up to play with 'kitty'.

  CS> ...what do you expect when the kid's first word was
    > 'cat'?

AB> That's cute.

Hehehe.  True too which makes it funnier!

Parents of kids who have pets, can tell you all sorts of things that are a
wee ¨bit different in development.  Commonest theme is they walk early. 
Best if the ¨pets are over a year old at this stage, as they know enough to
be properly ¨'wary' of a toddler's enthusiasm, yet not squelch it.
                                       xxcarol

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