Look with your eyes, not with your hands

Sophie enjoys showing us things.  Sometimes we think she's trying to give us things, but no--she's just showing them to us.  If we go to take something she'll snatch it away as if to say: "look with your eyes . . ."

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The other day, when we were enjoying outside, she found a piece of bark on the ground.  She stopped, looked, bent over and picked it up.  She examined it closely.  Then she trotted over to the nearest tree and tried to put it back on.

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Sometimes her mother and I will eat some of her food to convince her it's edible.  I feel like the royal food taster.  This works.  If mommy and daddy are eating it, it must be good.  Sophie finds the whole thing fascinating and uproariously funny.  She's taken to feeding us.  One cherry tomato for daddy, and one for Sophie.  One for daddy, one for Sophie.  Then she'll screw up her face and laugh-hiss "kssssh-whzzzzzsh" and gobble up the rest herself.