Big People Food

I have noticed over the last week or so that Tessa seems to be getting more and more finicky about eating her baby food. Over the past couple of months, when I would make some food that is nice and soft, I like giving Tessa little tastes of what I made, but lately, she seems to want more of that and less of her food. She loves her Yo-Baby Yogurt! Loves it! She would eat it every meal if I would let her. My big girl just loves to eat food like Mommy and Daddy. She likes to eat pancakes, mashed potatoes and other soft things. This week, I gave her little bits of chicken nuggets for the first time, she loved it! She even had some cake the other night (which she has had before) and her first taste of marshmellow fondant. And last night, she ate about half of a an apple cinnamon fruit and grain bar and she got to try veggie crunchies too! She tries so hard to feed herself. Sometimes when I try to do it, she'll close her mouth and turn her head, then try and put the food in herself. If she has something big enough or long enough, she will do very well to eat the part that is sticking out of her fist, but then she gets down to the bottom of it, and hasn't figured out to open her fist to put the rest of it in. She will sit there and suck on her to try and get it out. It is the funniest thing to watch. I'm sure before long, she'll have it figured out. She is growing up before my eyes.