why is she so hilarious

so not only did i get to discover this morning that my child has the oddest way of eating carrots conceivable to man, but today was also the first time that she tried to feed me her buggies... sigh. (more on the carrots in a second.) she has been recently getting into that cutest of mannerisms where she picks things up with her little pincers and offers them to other people. mostly it's little pieces of dirt she finds on the floor or even imaginary pieces of anything. naomi termed it "finding a dirt." it's just too precious how she looks at you with these big excited eyes and shortness of breath as she stretches out her arm to show you the treasure she has in her little fingers. anyway, she has also been getting a lot better about letting us get her buggies out of her nose. we just try to explain what we're doing and then if we get the buggie, we show it to her just so she knows there is some sort of product; we are not just making this up. today i had to get one while she was playing in the kitchen, and when i showed it to her, she stared at it with interest as she always does, then put her little finger out and got it on her fingertip, stared at it, pinched it, then sincerely held it up toward my mouth as if it were one of her cheerios. aaaah the joys...

so i had to give her some steamed carrot pieces when she woke up from her nap because i was cooking again instead of playing with her. she was on the floor with all the measuring spoons strewn about her again, and i decided to give her the little plate on the floor in front of her and see if she could eat them in a fairly organized fashion. at first she did pick them up and put them in her mouth. then, this happened:



sigh. so much learning in one day. it seems like it comes in clusters. she ALSO learned how to roll a ball to mama today! she pushes it to me, but won't wait for me to push it back cause she's so dang excited to have done it again, that she squeals and crawls over to the ball immediately to bite it and pund on it! then she wants to push it again so i have to scoot back, and thus we make our way around the living room for quite some time...