This won't be a long post, but I wanted to do a very quick update. In the last week, Maya's eating skills have exploded. I think she ate an entire salmon by herself the other day. She suddenly mastered her pincer grasp, so now she shovels food into her mouth faster than she can actually chew it. Her solid food consumption probably doubled without us doing anything differently than we already had been.
Watching her hunt and peck at food on her tray is endlessly fascinating. As a biologist, I've been unable to stop myself from setting up little experiments for her to test how she chooses her food. In ecology, there's a famous hypothesis for how animals choose prey items called optimal foraging theory, which basically says that the choice is a function of 1) the value of the food item in terms of how energy rich it is, and 2) how long it takes to catch and eat the food item. So I've been setting up little two item tests for her of different foods that vary in richness, yummy-ness (to her), and handling ease to see what she goes for when. So much fun!
Here are a few recent photos, and one heart-melting video of Maya watching Abby play with the feather toy to balance out the screaming video that I posted last week :)
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| She is so damn proud of being able to stand :) |
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| Her first corn on the cob, like a good Midwestern girl! |
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| We've been trying to learn all of our local trees - there are a lot! |
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