I'm sitting here eating a banana, Tyler's current favorite food, and thinking about him. He loves to eat these, but perhaps even more, he loves to peel them. He pulls a strand of peel all the way off, declares it trash and walks it to the trash can. Then comes back for another strand to do the same. After the peeling process, he prefers it split into two halves--one for each hand. Then he places the end of the banana in his mouth and leaves it there until it has disappeared. Almost like he sucks the banana down. It disappears pretty quickly too. Usually by the time I turn around to see how he's doing on it, it's gone and he's asking for another one. At home on weekends he usually eats at least two a day. I try not to let him overdose on the fruit but he can reach the fruit bowl so he often helps himself. If he can't get the peel started by himself and can't convince me to help him, he'll just take a bite right into the peel and all. The good news is he's stopped referring to himself as NaNa and now can say "Ty" when asked his name. It is so sweet the way he sings Ty. Nobody calls him that, we all call him by his full name. But he calls himself Ty. Maybe he's telling us something.