Have you missed me?

I know, you totally have.  I'm just sitting here at my kitchen table, singing songs to Susie and overall just wasting time.  I SHOULD be hand sanding the ridges in my cabinet doors, so I can SOMEDAY stain them, so I can someday put my kitchen back together....so I can SOMEDAY actually invite people over.  Yes, I am that silly, I don't want people to come see our new place until I have cabinet doors and drawer fronts to hide my mess.
Let me just say that after this experience, I don't think I am going to stain anything that requires stripping and sanding ever ever ever again. (but that being said, I DO like the new color of my cabinets better than the old color...it's just all the imperfections that get to me...)
So in other news, this little princess of ours won't eat chunks of fruit or vegetable.  She thinks all her fruits and veggies should be pureed and spoon fed to her.  We've made it chunkier all the time, but if it's not spoonfed to her, often with rice cereal, she won't eat it.  Or she will spit it out.  She loves crackers and chunks of cheese, but nothing else will she eat from her tray on her own.  Any ideas?  I tried to get her to eat some tiny chunks of kiwi (the world's mushiest fruit) for lunch today, and she threw a bawling red faced fit. (and she gets terribly offended when I tell her no.  like trembling lower lip, crumpling face, big crocodile tears.)
And unfortunately, even if Dallin WAS like this, I don't remember.  Wisdom from anyone? The systematic desensitization has hit a wall (yes, I know, spoken like a true behaviorist.  I can't help myself...and right now, I really wish I had kept my principles of learning text).
Moving on, I need to get Susie down for her nap, and go put another coat of stain on my solitary I'm-finished-sanding cabinet door (one down, 19 doors to go).