It’s sad, but in a funny way, that when we attempted to get Amanda to wear a poncho that had been hand-knitted by my step-grandma, the reaction we got was one of the most unhappy ones we’ve seen yet.*

Daddy, why are you doing this to me?

However, things can be quickly righted again simply by giving Amanda something - anything - with a tag on it. Why she loves sucking on these, we’ll probably never know, but it sure does make for a cute picture:

*However, there is video evidence of Amanda far more upset about another thing we attempted to foist upon her in the past few weeks: eating solid food. I’ll be putting that into the computer pretty soon. It’s one such moment that simply must be shared with the world.