As with all meals, Addie prefers the smooth taste of toe between courses.
So of course, her toes end up covered in food. When we are unable to keep her from the special toe-treat that is. Her washcloth routine is toes, fingers, face. Of course, now that I'm typing that it sounds totally wrong. Like it should be face, fingers, toes...but really the face is the messiest so it is the way it is.
As we have already introduced cereals (rice/oatmeal), carrots, sweet potatoes, avocado, green beans, and apples I decided it should be time to truly introduce them to food. Up until this point we have done the feeding. Last night I chose to change that up. Getting out their trays for the first time we let them get involved in their feeding. This pic is of just the girls because Zach was napping and so we fed him at the end of their feeding.
To prepare for this, we stripped them down to their diapers. They didn't really know what to do with the food on the trays at first. They played with it - avocado - and drew it all around their trays. Addie was the first to put a finger to her mouth, which was a tad surprising. Zach however, well, we could only find two of the three trays, the third being hidden in the basement somewhere, so he was given Addie's tray. Where the girls were a tad hesitant to dig in, our boy showed no fear! He dug right into the avocado on her tray and loved it when I added a touch more for him. He had avocado finger paint up to his elbows and loved every second of it!
To continue with our night of adventures, I also steamed some red pepper strips for them to experiment with. The meaning behind a lot of this is to introduce them to different textures and to allow them to start connecting the dots with them feeding themselves. Up until now John and I had been feeding them from a bowl ourselves, no trays, no real child involvement at all. The end goal will be them moving on to finger foods in a few months.
While all three enjoyed the pepper, Katie really really enjoyed it. (I hope the video works). If it does you can hear me talking about Addie getting the pepper and her belly. Both girls did that quite a bit. It made me smile.
So, these are our new adventures in eating. Messy, fun, learning adventures in eating.
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2 comments:
cannot remember doing anything like this when you guys were littles - definitely did not feed you avacodos and red pepper strips. The toes thing is inherited from her mom - you always had your toes in your mouth but not while you were eating. Great pics and video - love you guys.
Love the photos and the video. Cannot wait to see you guys and watch them in action! Love it!!
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