Making us a bigger baby!

Babygirl is seriously about to make us a bigger baby. Ever since we introduced her to solids, she's been just a nibbler - a bite here, a bite there, nibble nibble all day long. And only when presented to her; she's never been one to ask. Well, no more. She's known the sign for "eat" for a long time and now she can say the word "eat" too. And the last two days, she's actually been ASKING to eat. I fed her an entire turkey hotdog on Wednesday. And yesterday morning, when she woke up, she woke up my hubby with kisses and then as soon as he opened his eyes, she smiled and said/signed "eat eat!" Literally the first words out of her mouth. She ate constantly, nonstop, all day long. Every time she ran out of food she'd say "eat eat!" again. Hubby was able to feed her an entire banana at a shot, first time ever. She ate macaroni and cheese. And two Danimals drinkable yogurts. And two big sippies of soymilk. And a bunch of Pirate's Booty corn/rice/cheddar puffs. And a packet of Clifford fruit snacks. And half of one of daddy's waffles. And kielbasa chunks out of daddy's dinner. And a bunch of canned carrot slices. And a bunch of those freeze-dried sweet corn niblets for toddlers. Oh yeah, and she's been sleeping a lot too. Solid two-hour naps. Last night she insisted on going to bed an hour early. I'm making a point of dressing her in all my favorite size 12-month clothes now because in another week, they aren't even going to come close to fitting anymore. Yet another bittersweet moment - I'm happy to see her finally getting enthusiastic about eating, and happy she's about to have a nice healthy growth spurt, but sad because she's moving even further away from the sweet petite little baby I loved so much. I'm smiling through my tears.