Only 11 weeks old and Tara learned a new vice this evening: French Fries.

To get ready for the Chiefs game, my husband brought home pizza and wings and a new addition to the Pizza Hut lineup: French fries. Our older girls love pizza. The fries (accompanying the wings) were a new treat for them. Not to leave Tara out, I gave her a tiny piece of a French fry. Although she seemed to enjoy the flavor, she didn't understand just how to eat it. She has only known food of two consistencies in her short lifetime: mother's milk & dry mini kibble. The French fry piece was neither. She sucked on it, played with it, and tried to nipple it. Nothing worked. That's when I decided she probably shouldn't learn how to swallow new things that go into her mouth & took the French fry away from her.

Her latest naughty trick (started just today) is to chew out circles in the Piddle Pads we're using for her Potty Training until it's warm enough for her to go outside. I hope that she sticks to just shredding the top layer that is only paper and keeps spitting it out afterwards. This latest antic of hers has me nervous since the bottom of the Piddle Pads are plastic. So far, she has only be tearing off the top layers.

Anyhow, that's why I didn't allow her to continue on with the French fry. The other girls (who know all about people food) loved the single fry that each one got. Me? The Pizza Hut new fries are okay, but I wouldn't say they are any better than the frozen ones we get from the supermarket: just greasier since we air fry ours at home.

Tara will have to wait until she's a little older and no longer shedding Piddle Pads before I'll again encourage her to put new things (like a French fry) into her mouth. However, she did have a tiny taste of turkey on Thanksgiving & had no problem with eating that. The French fry (even a teeny piece) was another matter.