My Little Spaghetti Factory

So tonight, Elli had her first batch of real spaghetti! She's had pasta with marinara sauce before, but I didn't realize that spaghetti noodles would be so fascinating to her. She sure loved it though, I put a little over a cup worth of spaghetti and almost all of it made it into her mouth, and that was after she had already eaten some chicken that I gave her to hold her off til the spaghetti was done!

She started out slow, trying to get one noodle in her mouth at a time:
She quickly realized that she could pick up hand fulls and the noodles would stick together:

She was very good - even though she had to separate all the noodles and pick them all up, none was purposefully thrown on the floor. Thank goodness!
You Go Girl!!!
As you can see, I was smart and took off the brand new, adorable, wore for the first time shirt she was wearing before she started eating.
The aftermath: she had spaghetti on her face, in her ears, in her hair, up both arms, and on her chest and tummy..... needless to say she had a bath before bedtime!