Blow on your food

by erikrasmussen, on Flickr")It's a terrible feeling when you spoon some food into your child's mouth and it's so hot that it burns her mouth. Now that Nora is really starting to ape and parrot us (animals as verbs!) in earnest, we've been able to teach her to blow on her food. Sometimes she gets a little carried away and forgets to actually put it in her mouth. Here she is eating an omelet for dinner.