She's Saucy

By calling Laine saucy, I don't mean to say that Laine is sassy or cheeky. What I mean is that Lainey really likes . . . sauce. Today we ate lunch at Rumbi's. I had fish tacos and rice with teriyaki sauce. Whitley ate a salad with creamy vinaigrette, and we shared chips and mango salsa. Laine basically just ate all of our sauces.

We made a little plate for Laine with rice, chicken and chips. Lainey picked up a chip, dipped it in the mango salsa and put the chip in her mouth. I watched her suck off the salsa, and then take the whole chip back out of her mouth. Next, she dipped the chip into Whitley's salad dressing and sucked the dressing off the chip. Laine continued sucking sauces off of chips for the next several minutes. At one point, she even had a chip in each hand, alternating sucking salad dressing and mango salsa from each chip.

Whitley soon tried to make her eat something by forcing a piece of chicken into her mouth. Laine reached down her throat--gagged a little bit--pulled out the chicken and held it in front of her face for inspection. When she saw there wasn't any sauce on it, she grunted, dipped the chicken into the closest sauce, and sucked the sauce off of the chicken.

I then took the chips away from her in an attempt to get her to eat something else, like maybe the rice. With her dipping implements gone, Laine ignored the rice and stuck her hand right into the salsa bowl. She pulled out a handful of tomato-red, dripping, oozing salsa. She leaned her head back, dangled her hand over her mouth and methodically sucked the salsa off each chubby finger.

By the end of lunch, Laine looked extremely satisfied with her lunch . . . and was in need of a clean shirt.