No, he didn't call the White House to lodge his complaint about insurance for all children...
Liam is now self-feeding!!!
I swear there is something in this kid that hears what I am talking about with others & then decides that this will just not cut the mustard and starts doing whatever it is I have been talking about! It was the same with sleeping through the night & I'm sure some other things along the way...
Last week, a family friend with a little 2 1/2 year old girl Ella, gave me the advice to eat along side with him, something obvious but something I wasn't doing cause feeding him takes two hands & two eyes on him so that falls solely on me BUT when I heated myself up some chicken bites he wanted them RIGHT AWAY, something he has never indicated before! So I gave him some & he ate them all by himself and attempted to use his spork! We decided that TGIFriday frozen food was not very good fare for our boy so we got some organic nuggets & he's been eating 3 of them for lunch and even added ketchup yesterday! Last night he fed himself [organic] Mac & Cheese [for about 70% of the time] - and he's so very proud of himself! It's adorable & such a fantastic step ahead :) Mama is very proud of him! He's self-feeding banana pieces also, whereas before he was eating them smashed!
I know this post is full of exclamation points but I'm so very excited about all of this! Table foods! Eating with his fingers! No more spooning purees into his chew-hole!
I think I'm done with making anymore purees too! I had no issues with doing that so although it's a great thing that he will not need this anymore, it's yet another milestone that I have to go past & say goodbye to, so it's a little sad for me here. But I'm loving the "free time" during meal time now!
He's also asking for something to drink - although not using a 'real' word for it. He will go over to the fridge & ask or go to his drawer to indicate that he would like something, please&thankyou. He's also been asking for something to drink with his meals - this is a new thing because I am a firm believer in "don't fill up on milk or you'll ruin your dinner" line of thinking so he's always gotten something to drink before dinner but now that he's eating more table foods, I agree to help him along with a little something to wash down all this chewed up food!
Now, I have to figure out what to feed him :) I'm probably just going to continue with the same foods he's been eating in the pureed form - broccoli, squashes, ground meats, all his fruits, etc. But I think I might have to come up with some more Meals, like 3 Squares a Day kind of Meals. I have the Super Baby Food book and although I really liked it, I didn't quite need to use with when I was doing purees, now I think is a good time to revisit it! I'm also going to start giving him more of what we are eating & see how that goes over too.
So YAY to Self-Feeding!
1 comment:
Hey there!
When we got to this point, (and I felt the same way - no more purees, woo hoo - because as charming as it was to make that food for him at 1st, it lost its luster quickly!) we just mostly made food for us and offered him that food so we could eat as a family.
Plus it got tiresome making extra food for him while we ate other stuff AND to top all of that off he started rejecting his "special" food because he realized his food was different from ours... Sigh. They grow up SO fast ;)
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