SUNDAY MEMORIES
Judy Wills
I’m sure that many new parents have had this experience – but it was new to us.
When our oldest daughter, Karen, was just a little thing, we were living in Wiesbaden, West Germany. She was finally old enough – developed enough – to be eating solid foods, and our foods – no more baby food.
I remember the first time she was given a piece of chicken to eat. I had made fried chicken for supper that evening, and I had given Karen a drumstick to eat. Fred and I were eating and conversing, as we usually did, not really paying much attention to Karen.
All of a sudden, I looked over at her in her high chair, and…..she was waving that chicken bone this way and that. It was completely stripped of everything edible! She had eaten the fried skin, the meat, the tendons and ligaments – that was the barest drumstick I had ever seen! It was naked! While I was nearly gagging at the thought of all she had eaten, she was happy as a lark! It’s a good thing that bone was thick, or I’m convinced she would have tried to eat the bone as well!
While we can laugh about it now, I’m convinced that I paid a LOT more attention to what and how she ate after that experience. She didn’t suffer any severe consequences from her encounter with that chicken bone, but I made sure to cut the meat off the bone and give it to her the next time.
Romans 8:28
Old Things R New 
Good thing her baby teeth couldn’t gnaw that bone! She had no worries, eh?!
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We had a similar experience with our daughter Emily. Gave her fish to eat, and wouldn’t you know it, a bone stuck in her throat. Took her to the Brit Dr who ran a clinic near us, and got severely chastised for giving fish to a child.
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