We took Sam to a local restaurant that's very child-friendly the other day. So child friendly that it has a whole play area full of toys, train tables, etc. She was fascinated by all of the new things, and very cute in her attempts to turn on the faucet in the toy sink. (She likes to play with the water in the downstairs powder room sink at home -- with close adult supervision, of course.) She also got along well with the other kids who were there, even the little boy who kept taking the toys she'd picked up. His parents made him apologize at one point, and he said "I'm sorry" and then very sweetly kissed her on the cheek. Great -- 15 months old and she's already breaking hearts.

In the course of the meal we found a whole variety of new things she likes to eat -- marinated olives, hummus and pita bread, feta cheese, grilled asparagus, and even corn on the cob. She found a plastic toy ear of corn and was biting it just as you would a real one; since I happened to have a real one as part of dinner I broke off an end and gave it to her. She made a valiant attempt at eating it! I guess those first few teeth are really coming in handy.