Like a duck to water

So while I was gone at Leadership School, Brooke secretly gave Hadley a little piece of a banana just to see if she was interested.  See dinner is always interesting, and loud, in our house.  Hadley has only added to the "fun." If Hadley is not in your (normally Brooke's) lap during dinner she will sit there and talk, and talk, and talk, until you pick her up.  And it really is talking, except it sounds like E.T or probably more like a tauntaun.  Every noise she makes sounds like something from The Empire Strikes Back movie.  She  also talks more than any kid we have and if you have never met my kids, they all talk like mad.  So Brooke picks up Hadley tonight in her lap and Hadley is literally watching Brooke put the food on the fork and then following with her eyes and head, as Brooke puts the food in her mouth.  I swear I have seen my dogs do that 1000 times when they want people food.  What does Hadley then do? No, not slobber like a dog, she starts smacking her lips.  Apparently, that is the first sign they are ready to eat.  I didn't know there were signs.  I just assumed Brooke got tired of whipping her boob out (blog about that later) and so you start supplementing with food.  Who knew?  I learned something even after 4 kids today.  Anywho, after the lip smacking, Brooke decides to smash a pea or two, maybe a carrot- to see how Hadley reacts.  She downs it like  champ.  So, why not go for some real baby food.  The next sign is if they spit out the food they aren't ready.  Well after a thing of squash and a thing of prunes, we are pretty sure she is ready to eat people food.  She ate and ate and ate like it was her job.  In Hadley's mind I am sure this was the greatest night of her entire life.  It was one of the funnier things we had seen.  The "big" girls were interested in the prunes that Hadley was eating so they all tried it as well.  So not only did Hadley provide some comic relief, she did so in a healthy way. 

Its sort of funny that humans, when grown, are the most evolved species.  Yet when we are born we are the most helpless.  In a week where one girl goes off to school full time (and doesn't talk much about it when she gets home), we have another who decided it was time to eat.  Sort of a cycle I suppose.

P.S. Trinity wins 45-7 over Brentwood Academy in Nashville.  Trinity 1- Tennessee 0.