Fruit puffs & dancing

Brenna has mastered the art of feeding herself - well, fruit puffs anyway. Fruit puffs are little cheerio-like pieces of food that are made specially for toothless babies (meaning they dissolve quickly, so it's ok if you don't have teeth). Brenna has been trying to eat them for the last few weeks and always made a funny face. Well, this weekend, she really figured them out. She can grab one between her fingers (more if you give her more than one at a time), put it into her mouth, chew it up and swallow it! Sometimes little pieces make it back out of her mouth, but generally she does great with them. Not to mention that they hold her attention while mom and dad eat dinner! We've started to give her a small handful after she eats her dinner (at which she is doing very well these days - actually ate 2 containers of applesauce tonight!) so that she is distracted while we finish our meal and it's working out great. They are also great snacks while out on the town. In addition to the fruit puff fun - Brenna has been entertaining us with her dancing. Unfortunately, I can't display any video of her lovely dancing on the blog, but picture a little bit of bouncing leg action with some back and forth motion of the hips and head - you've got the idea. She will pull herself up to the table or her big block toy and just dance away - with or without music. When we tell her "dancy, dancy" she gets a big grin and keeps dancing. It is so funny! She's also becoming VERY talkative (wonder where she gets that from) and is talking to us all the time - in her own little language of course. She shakes her head from side to side (like a "no" motion) and just blabs away. We are having a blast watching her learn these new things and playing with her - we couldn't ask for a more fun baby!