EchoBooming in Birmingham

For any of you that know DrWife, it should come as no surprise that our offspring is every bit as stubborn and independent as her mother.

Last night, while feeding attempting to feed Fairlyn it became abundantly clear that if she couldn’t feed it to herself, she wasn’t going to eat it.

She was putting down her “veggie puffs” like she hadn’t eaten in 11 months (btw, she’ll be 11 months old tomorrow), but every time I’d attempt to shovel some apple cinnamon blended food stuffs down her throat, she’d bat it out of the way…

The next thing I tried was a carrot stick. She was really digging that, pulling off slivers of carrot and munching away… So I gave her another one and she would put the one she was eating down, and pick up the other one… then throw it on the floor, pick up the other one while I washed off the one that ended up on the floor. Once I gave it back to her the entire process would repeat itself.

Well, as entertaining as this was, I knew I had to find some way of getting her to eat something else (or she’d be waking up in the middle of the night hungry). So I decided to use some of these funky spoon like things that my mom gave us and see if they’d work. So I loaded up one with some of the apple cinnamon food product and she immediately grabbed it and shoved it in her mouth!

As happy as I was with this, I was soon amazed at the fact that all I had to do was hold my hand out and she would graciously hand the quasi spoon back to me so I could load it up again.

I was pretty impressed with her first attempt at spoon feeding herself (as was Fairlyn, she would clap and slather the apple cinnamon goo on her hands after nearly every bite). About half of the apple cinnamon stuff ended up in her mouth and the the other half ended up on the floor, her high chair, the walls, etc.

Not bad IMHO…