{"id":535,"date":"2008-03-31T23:30:18","date_gmt":"2008-04-01T04:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/?p=535"},"modified":"2008-03-31T23:30:18","modified_gmt":"2008-04-01T04:30:18","slug":"when-you-leave-daddy-in-charge-of-dinner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/?p=535","title":{"rendered":"When you leave Daddy in charge of dinner&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/Mary%20Clare%20feeding%20herself%201.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/Mary%20Clare%20feeding%20herself%201.html','popup','width=690,height=518,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/Mary Clare feeding herself 1-thumb-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" alt=\"Mary Clare feeding herself 1.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0 auto 20px;\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/Mary%20Clare%20feeding%20herself%202.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/Mary%20Clare%20feeding%20herself%202.html','popup','width=690,height=518,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/Mary Clare feeding herself 2-thumb-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" alt=\"Mary Clare feeding herself 2.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0 auto 20px;\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>I came into the kitchen after bathing McCanless to discover my baby girl under a pile of noodles.  As she ravenously devoured them (or tried to), I stared silent and wide-eyed, not sure if I should quickly review the Heimlich, kill Mel, or just laugh. I laughed.<\/p>\n<p>Mel then explained to me that last week at Mimi&#8217;s, she tried this new treat and gave Mimi and Mel a great laugh as she squeezed each and every noodle-O before squishing it into her mouth.  (I think I was at <em>Annie<\/em> with McCanless-good thing.)<\/p>\n<p>We have been giving her tastes of everything we eat and Mary Clare has become quite the little food connoisseur sampling everything from Mexican cuisine to broccoli casserole. (I just didn&#8217;t realize she could feed herself)  She LOVES &#8220;real food&#8221; and I&#8217;m afraid that baby food days are over.  She STILL has NO TEETH, which doesn&#8217;t keep her from gumming every piece of veggie, cracker, cake, ANYTHING!  It is amazing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I came into the kitchen after bathing McCanless to discover my baby girl under a pile of noodles. As she ravenously devoured them (or tried to), I stared silent and wide-eyed, not sure if I should quickly review the Heimlich, kill Mel, or just laugh. I laughed. Mel then explained to me that last week [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}