Most days J will eat anything – especially if an adult is eating it too. He’ll eat almost anything off of a “big person” fork or spoon. Funny how early on they realize that what you have is probably better than what they have.
Tonight he wasn’t having it though, did not want to sit in the highchair… at. all. Only got a few bites into him before he was relentlessly screaming and fighting to spin around in the chair. OK, we get it, this isn’t going to work tonight.
So get him cleaned up and out in the play room with me while the hubby finished scarfing down his own dinner.
J has always been a mobile kiddo. From 6 weeks old he wanted to stand. No sit, not lay, STAND. So we learned very early on that if he’s standing, he’s probably happy. Hence the Adventures in feeding began! Multi-tasking is already a must if you are a parent, you just never quite realize to what extent!
So tonight was no exception, simply add feeding into the playtime equation and TA-DA! Victory.
His meal time went a like this:
Walk sideways back and forth in front of the bay window while babbling and slapping the seat as I sat on one side with a yogurt and skillfully finagled spoonfuls into his moving (but wide open) mouth each time he came my direction. Hooray! One yogurt down the hatch successfully and without whining and yogurt flying about the room.
Then we moved onto the rolling walker and carrots. As daddy aimed him one direction or the other across the room, I had a spoonful of orange goop ready and waiting for J to “pay his toll” before he could continue on his path across the room. Woo! Carrots down!
In the midst I also managed to become the human napkin – as we all do at one time…or always – so there wasn’t any clean up even!
Another successful feeding time in the Adventures of Feeding, hurrah!
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