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Bought Tiny a bowl and spoon set today. I thought it was blue and
purple but it looks more like pink. Goddammit I hate pink. Least it's
not Barbie pink. I'd have to hunt down whoever manufactured it and
shove it down their throat.
Anyways. It's one of those deals
that changes colour if the food is too hot, and it has a nice soft
rubbery spoon bit (the handle of which is moulded plastic). So we were
having leftovers for dinner and we'd set up Tiny in his high chair with
his new bowl and spoon and his cup. I think he's still a bit small for
the high chair we got, he just looked at the bowl and spoon, then at us.
He started making chewing motions as we ate, and I tried to encourage
him to play with the bowl and spoon by offering him the spoon.
He opened his mouth when the spoon drew close, and chewed on it when I put it into his mouth.
Josh commented on how he seemed to know what to do with it.
I
repeated the process a couple of times, getting him to chew on the
spoon, and in between "mouthfuls" I dipped the spoon into the bowl.
Then I had a "brilliant" idea and put a grain of rice on the tip of the
spoon and offered it again. Tao opened his mouth as he had previously,
but this time got the grain of rice as well as the spoon. I was
expecting his cute little pointy tongue to shove it back out, which is
what happened the last time I accidentally got a lumpy bit of food in
the fingertip I was giving him.
He chewed with this shocked expression on his face, staring at me the whole time. He'd eaten the rice grain.
I
spent a little while in shock, then said something or other to him
about how he had to wait another month because I wasn't sure if his
digestive system was fully up and ready to go yet.
Then fed him another couple of grains of rice to see if the first time had been a fluke.
Josh
in the meantime was getting all excited at the thought of giving him
grated apples, mashed bananas and the like. I'm anticipating that the
first few feedings will probably be extra messy as he checks out
whatever it is we start giving him. Still think I'm going to wait til
he's at leasst 6 months before I try giving him something that resembles
a meal. Will see what he thinks I guess.