When it's time to reintroduce me to solid foods, their words again, it's pureed chicken and strained carrots.

I could imagine a maid washing dirty diapers and cleaning strained carrots off the kitchen wall.

Steinbrenner patted his hands on the table again, as giddy as a 1-year-old banging his strained carrots in a highchair.

Both wondered if Arnie had ever been a father, and if his infant had starved to death waiting for his strained carrots.

Kate paused in the act of getting out jars of the baby's applesauce and strained carrots.

"Colin's turning mashed peas into a fashion statement, Sylvie's doing some redecorating with her strained carrots, and Aoki and I are enjoying some vegetable moussaka, fresh corn, and spinach salad."

Mr. Meyers told her he had been trying to feed the baby a bottle of strained carrots mixed with milk when Dy'kqim threw up.

In which case," Miriam pointed out, "you could take a took at Micky at the same time ... rubbing strained carrots in her hair.

Blueberry buckle, strained liver, strained carrots.

Parental styles, from permissive to authoritarian, play more of a role once children become toddlers and are trying to master skills that are far more complex than swallowing strained carrots or sitting up.