Wednesday, April 13, 2011

The Art of Feeding Oneself

I forgot how messy kids can be when they are in this stage of their eating development! Lately, Walker has taken quite an interest in using his spoon and fork - properly, that is. Of course he likes to carry them around and bang them on things and hold the ends in his mouth to be silly but as of late, he's been trying to actually use the fork and the spoon to feed himself. Today he successfully stabbed a piece of his sandwich with his fork and put it in his mouth, and he then used the opposite end of his spoon to shovel in a bite of yogurt. What a big boy he's becoming!

chewing on the spoon

his spoon actually making contact with the yogurt in the yogurt container

a scoop of yogurt on the wrong end of the spoon

And when all else fails, and using your utensils becomes more work than it's worth, you can always just put the entire container up to your mouth and try to squeeze out the contents by using sheer brute force.

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