A Genius in the Making

Come on...everyone already knew that Bailey would be a genius, but now we have evidence.

This evening I was feeding Bailey some rice cereal (nasty stuff! Seriously, just taste it...). Towards the end of our feeding session Bailey started to get a little grumpy and started telling me that she had had enough (and I mean telling me. She screwed up her face and hollered). I (being the pushy person and demanding father I dreamed of being) kept at it, determined that she was going to finish. Well, Bailey decided to give in and let me win, but with one little twist...

Bailey actually grabbed the spoon that was in my hand and started to feed herself! No kidding... I mean, I was still holding onto the spoon and kind of directing it so that she didn't hurt herself, but she really was (trying, at least) to feed herself. She would put the spoon in her mouth, close her lips around it, and remove the spoon. I thought that maybe this was just a accident...a fluke. So I loaded up the spoon with some more cereal and she did it again. She still needs to work on the concept that, once you've put the spoon in your mouth and eaten what's on it, then you have to put more food on the spoon (but come on...lets not get ahead of ourselves. At least she was feeding herself). Bailey just kept putting the spoon in her mouth over-and-over again. But at least she cleaned everything off the spoon.

As I said...GENIUS!!!