It’s no secret that Analie loves apples.

In fact, we have to hide them if we’re eating them and she’s around, because she starts flapping her arms as though that will enable her to fly up to the apple, steal it from our hands and put it in her face.

We used to let her gnaw on the apples we were eating, until she figured out that her teeth are excellent at peeling off large, choking-hazard pieces of apple that get lodged in her trachea.  So she’s cut off from sharing our apples, we just bite her off teeny pieces now.  Fortunately that’s usually enough to send her over the moon.

Well, some of Analie’s favorite big kids picked her some apples.  When I showed them to her this morning, she immediately started growling her intimidating MOM PLEASE GIVE ME THAT OBJECT RIGHT AWAY!!!!! growl and flapping her arms like a chicken.

But chickens can’t fly, and neither can Analie.  So I gave her a whole apple to roll around on the floor while I cut her up some tiny pieces for her to feed herself.

She put it straight in her mouth, just like the big people do.

I gave her a few tiny bits of apple to eat, and then planned to turn the rest into applesauce.  She was all about the apple pieces, because these were particularly tasty apples.

She had no less than six apple pieces in her mouth at the time of this photo.  And she stored them in her cheek for safekeeping for about twenty minutes after.

It didn’t take long to make the applesauce, either, and it turned out REALLY good.  Fresh picked apples make all the difference.  I gave her a few more bites and her eyes got very big each time.  So cute.

Analie wanted me to be sure to tell Lauren and Sydney THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR MY TASTY APPLES!!!  She loved them with all her heart.