COOKIE MONSTER

Whooooooo's the Cookie monster?


I am!

It's about time I relent and give my baby a cookie. As much as I wanna keep feeding her gooey mush, I also need to think about her itchy gums. What jolted me out of my delusional puritan ways? One of her teether (the plastic type with water inside which she likes straight cold from the fridge) is already leaking due to her constant gnawing. She reminds me Sunny from the Lemony Snicket's movie (so does Uncle Dr. Mynn :) Her teethers and Tutu Chew aside, she particularly favours rubbery & plasticky objects. I caught her once industriously biting my house slippers. No kidding.

Back to the cookie, I scoured a few stores and settled for the Baby Bites Rice Rusk original. I couldn't find anything 'sugarless', but the store assistant said this was as tawar/flavourless as they can get. So as we get into the car, I said to myself "I won't give it to her immediately, but I'll give her a cookie if she starts acting up on the way."

Like I predicted, she started fussing and I handed her a piece. She looked at it suspiciously at first and scrunched up her face at me like I was doing the craziest thing. She automatically put it in the mouth and I prayed she didn't choke on the tiny bits. I know I'm paranoid but I get her sippy bottle ready just in case.

To my amazement, she chomped on it like a pro. The rusk got surprisingly soft once it's in contact with saliva (melts better in the mouth than M&Ms!) and she seemed like she knew what to do. Step by step. Bites. Chomps. Chews. Swallow. Take a breath. Bites again.

It occured to me that she was feeding herself independently for the first time and I got a sudden rush of overwhelming feeling that drove me close to tears. But I snapped out of it because she demanded for a second, AND a third rusk.

I almost burst into hysterical laughter when I tried to reach over to break the piece in two, she held the cookie as far away as she could from my grasp and quicky stuffed it her mouth with her face turned away- as if I'm trying to confiscate the cookie from her! Eh, where does she learn all this?


I notice that she always eat using the left hand...