Cat Food vs. Baby Food

Now that Giada's eating solids, there have been many exciting new tastes that she has enjoyed. Her favorite dinner foods include chicken nuggets, peas, and small tastes of a cookie. For breakfast? Cheerios, sucking and biting on a piece of bagel, and homemade apple sauce. Now, as far as lunch goes, she just snacks on things, like cheese (which she LOVES; not only is she the spitting image of Rob, but also adores cheese like her father), crackers, and apparently, CAT FOOD. I can't even tell you how many times I see her hovering around the cat food dishes. Now, you are probably asking yourself, "What kind of a mother would leave out the cat's food dishes for the baby to find?" Oh, okay, so first of all, whoever is thinking that, they either have never had a child, or they no longer live on this planet because they are PERFECT.
I have taken the dishes away, and swept and mopped my floors, but apparently, Giada still seems to find a disgusting fish, chicken or beef flavored nugget anyway. I prefer to think that my cat and my daughter are in cahoots with each other. If you were to ask me how I think my daughter finds cat food, I would present the following as a theory: Athena (my cat), goes to eat in the morning. She notices with great distaste (as all cats do, by the way), that her meal consists of dry, tasteless nuggets, instead of a fresh kill, like a mouse or fish. After pawing at her food for a few seconds to either decide if the food is really there or that she's having a nightmare, she tentatively takes a few nuggets into her mouth, and chews them disdainfully. Now, after she realizes that the nuggets are indeed fake, she paws at her dish to create a scattering of nuggets, so that I can realize that she is not happy with her food. HOWEVER, she has also noticed that the baby gets "the royal treatment" in regards to food. So, in rebellion, the cat somehow hides some of the scattered nuggets to where I can't see them, but my baby can. Therefore, she not only gets back at me, but taints my offspring with her nasty food. Then, Gia, thinking that the cat is leaving her 'treats', crawls around and finds them.

Luckily, though, Gia has only eaten cat food a couple of times, and both times I have triple checked the floor for any stray nuggets of nastiness. Ah, having a crawler is sweet...I can't wait until she can walk!! ;)