Little Miss Grabby Hands likes to snatch at anything. She's tasted curry, ketchup, pickle juice, and coffee by virtue of sticking her fingers in my plate and moving them immediately to her mouth. Can't say she's really been a fan of any of these grown-up foods, but she's interested in exploring anything we bring to the table. Or anything we put near her, edible or not. Tessa is a very intentional baby. You can see her look at something, concentrate on it, and then deliberately move her body and hands toward it to grab it. She's not some fly-by-night, trial-by-error, shoot a sea of bullets and one will probably hit the mark girl. She focuses on what she wants, takes aim, and gets it.
In that vein, Tess is in the fun phase of "throw it away and then try to get it back." So we'll be sitting on the floor playing with toys and she'll throw all of them out of her reach and then see if she can somehow maneuver herself within range to bring them back for play. This is a fine game on the floor and will eventually be how she teaches herself to crawl. It's a bit more frustrating, say, at the table where things just drop to the floor out of sight and reach. Mama don't play that game (more than twice or three times).
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