Truths of life

1. If you give your baby avocado in a feeder and swear you will never do it again, you will in fact do it again within 24 hours to see if it really turns out as messy the second time.

2. It's difficult to scrub avocado out of your squirmy baby's eyebrows, even when she's strapped into her high chair.

3. The dogs are mighty interested in an avocado-filled feeder when dropped on the kitchen floor.

4. Avocado would make a good finger paint.

5. If you suck all the air out of the baggie holding the cut avocado, you don't need to use lemon juice to keep the avocado from going brown.

6. If you push up your baby's sleeves before giving her the avocado-filled feeder, they will inevitably slip right down and become irreparably smeared with avocado.

7. This has got to be the most times I have ever typed avocado in my life in one sitting, Maybe more times in this one post than in all of my past writings to date.

8. I giggled when I read on the box the high chair came in that the entire thing - seat and all - can be put through the dishwasher. Little did I know I would need such a functionality.

9. When Daddy gets home tonight, we're going to try this avocado thing again, but this time we're going to do it in the bathtub!

Check out Miss Charlie Jo's teeth -- they're really coming in nicely.