Since oh, I don’t know, the day I started feeding David solids, he’s refused to eat off a spoon.
At first he’d grab the spoon and guide it to his mouth.
Then he just all-out refused to eat off a spoon. He wouldn’t eat anything off a spoon; yogurt, cereal, not even ice cream.
That’s right, he refused ICE CREAM. My son has standards, and he will not be convinced to lower them with ice cream, thankyou, sir.
So we only feed him finger foods.
The only thing that bothered me (besides the fact that this was just one more waymy son was wielding power over me) was that I wondered how he’d ever transition to feeding himself with a fork.
Then at a Christmas dinner at church, David grabbed a fork off the table and started eating off my plate. MY plate; the kid has some nerve. He knows what he’s doing because instead of getting mad that he was eating MY food, I was all “TOM! LOOK! DAVID’S EATING WITH A FORK!!”
No turning back. Now David demands to use a fork, even when it doesn’t make sense.
Like when eating Cheerios. (We don’t have baby forks because we weren’t quite ready for this transition, so he’s using plastic forks.)
He always eats with his left hand. Three out of four of his grandparents are left-handed. So were five out of the last seven presidents.
I don’t mean that as a prediction or anything, but more like a cliff-hanger at the end of a scary story.
Don’t worry David Andrew we have IKEA forks for you!
Wow, amazing hand skillz David! Addie also almost always uses her left first, but no one is lefthanded around here so I’m guessing she’ll outgrow it. Weird presidential trivia.. how’d you know that??
Way to go David! We made a deal about 4 months ago with Peyt that when she turned 4 1/2 (Dec 20th) she had to start using utensils because her little brother that is 2 1/2 years younger than her always uses his. She would just always rather eat with her fingers, so congrats on not having to threaten your 4 1/2 year old. 🙂
I remember that first year realization, too, when suddenly I felt normal again! You did such a great job coming back post-baby. It will only get easier from here. Glad we connected through our blogs… happy new year, Amanda!
Ahh I love this post and I love having a mom running friend that I can relate so well to on this. Now we just need to live in the same city.