the fine art of dining

ellis is already pretty good with eating finger foods as I started giving her food to practise with since she could do a "pincer" hold.

17.11.08

So I thought I'd try to see if I could train her to eat on her own with a spoon. Here's her first time at it:

On came the big bib from aunty jenna - you can see that she was none too happy with me for making me wait for her food to snap a picture.

The verdict? I had to help her along naturally - there was some mess but not too bad considering it was her first attempt at it. I suppose how fast she progresses will correspond to my tolerance level for mess. I'm trying very hard to ignore the inner voice to "clean up!" and focus on letting her learn.