I hate to admit this, but Natasha is projecting an obvious daddy's-girl behaviour. Not only in how she behaves and reacts, but also in her character and personality.

For instance, if you know Matthew then you also know that he doesn't eat a lot. But the fact that he doesn't eat a lot does not imply he doesn't eat well. Whenever we're downtown Matthew tries to avoid the food-court as much as possible, and would rather eat in a funky Indian restaurant, Swiss Chalet, Boston Pizza, or the Keg. He'd order himself a large portion (i.e. ribs, French fries, Caesar salad, and a large coke), and then only eat a 1/3 of his entire order. Of course this drives me nuts because paying $15.99 just doesn't justify such ridiculous eating habits, but Matthew argues that it's worth the quality of food and the food-court food, although way cheaper, tastes like crap. He sort of has a point, but so do I.

Anyway, the above is just some background to explain the following. When Natasha was 4 months old she got her first taste of cereal. And once that happened she slowly but persistently started refusing her bottle. By the time she turned 5 months old she wanted nothing at all to do with the bottle and wanted to be spoon-fed only. And nothing we tried to change her mind worked. She's now 9.5 months old and cereal has been going okay until recently. It's recommended at this age to start giving babies taste of table-food (whatever the parents are eating) so the baby slowly starts getting used to 'adult-foods' and becomes familiar with them. And so we've been giving Natasha tastes of spaghetti, Lasagna, rice, salad, mashed potatoes, etc. Just like we're supposed to...

And what has this led to??? Natasha not wanting her cereal. Grrr. This was our only means of getting the formula into her! And now she makes an angry face, closes her lips really tight, and shakes her head whenever she sees a spoonful of cereal coming her way. Of course, she obviously wants the better stuff and in a way I cannot blame her because baby cereal really doesn't taste that good, compared to something like... Lasagna.

And Natasha is a skinny baby, too; she doesn't overeat like a lot of babies her age, she's not a piggy at all, but she does recognize the difference between better and worse tasting foods and she knows how to demand for it. She's way happier getting 5 spoonfuls of rice than a plateful of cereal. Again I say - like father, like daughter.