Andrea’s Weblog

One of the cool things about turning one is that Elizabeth can
finally, officially eat peanut butter! I’ve been looking forward to
her sharing my morning ritual of eating peanut butter toast with her.
With the amount of peanut butter we go through in this house, I’m
sure she’s already gotten her fingers into some before this milestone
date.

The only problem I’ve encountered is that PB is so darned sticky.
It’s like paste. It didn’t take her long to realize that when she
puts her sippy cup down on a PB cracker, the cracker will
miraculously stick to the sippy cup. After repeating this trick
several times, you can imagine what the cracker looks like. She’s
also discovered that PB crackers will stick to your arms and that
Caper, our fluffy cat, doesn’t particularly care for PB in her fur,
but Finley seems to love anything with a hint of PB- Elizabeth’s face
and hands included-and doesn’t mind being petted with PB fingers.

Since she’s still a vegetarian, I’m looking at PB as a protein
source, so I would like her to actually get some in her mouth now and
then. I tried making cracker sandwiches, but she just disassembled
them and proceeded to get peanut butter all over the house. Is there
anything that she can eat with peanut butter that won’t get it all
over the place or will Finley permanently keep his dream job of PB
Cleanup Patrol?