Curiosity and the Wonderland

Little Veda is extremely curious, she keeps watching what we are hiding from her, how we eat and drink. She loves to keep her mouth at the edge of a glass or a cup and pretend to drink. I have offered her sips of milk shakes and tomato juice, my husband offers her buttermilk and tea. Often she picks up an empty glass and just gnaws at the edge. My daughter is extremely independent at meal time, she doesn't like to be fed, she likes to nibble on foods that she eats on her own. More recently we discovered a strong liking for grilled cheese sandwich on wheat toast. I could be wrong but she has enjoyed this on 4 different days.

Yesterday at daycare the kid next to her was eating black beans and Veda grabbed some of them and ate it. I guess she liked the taste and decided she wanted more.. and more. Her teachers tried to distract her, but the only way they could avoid an uncontrollable situation was by moving Veda to a different place. As Veda's mom I am happy that she found something she liked to eat.

The kitchen is a wonderland for my daughter. Till Saturday 3/20/2010, Veda wasn't allowed to crawl in the kitchen. I was out Saturday morning and I return to find my little princess in the kitchen. She even crawled out of the kitchen with a big smile on her face to greet me when I entered our apartment. Almost as if she was saying, "haha what will you do now mom, I can come inside the kitchen". She had taken out her baby spoons the ice cream scoop and some more things and was happily playing on the floor. My husband was making breakfast and supervising her. Since Saturday she has been in the kitchen everyday. Yesterday (03/23/2010) she tried to climb into the dishwasher, after she realized she couldn't do that she took out some dirty spoons and tried to put a clean pan, which she took from a shelf, in! Before that she lifted and/or dragged the pressure cooker with its lid out from the shelf and stared hard into the cooker. Maybe she was wondering why it wasn't whistling away. Between Saturday and Tuesday she has also managed to look into the shelves of the refrigerator, stand up against the cooking range at stare at the oven. On the upside she hasn't figured out how to ( or bothered to) open the cabinets or the refrigerator.

The main attraction in my kitchen remains the microwave. My daughter cheers for the microwave, she will clap her hands when the light is on in the microwave. If she cannot see the microwave, but she hears the microwave go on, she will try to come to a location where she can have a good view of the microwave in action. Sometimes when she cries my husband runs the microwave for a minute just to calm her ( I prefer showing her a mirror)!!