Big guy practicing his spoon prowess!
Big guy officially uses utensils! He's not totally proficient at it, but he's just about there. Ever since he started eating food, I've always given him another utensil, spoon or fork. And big guy has always been interested in utensils. Most often in the early days (and sometimes now) it's what settles him down during meals. But over the past few weeks, he's gotten so much better. Now, when he's in front of a bowl of food, he reaches for his spoon and starts to eat it by himself. It's still a messy endeavor but kind of frees me up to eat something, too. probably why I've put on a few pounds recently!!
The fork is a bit more tricky, but only b/c when he scoops food up he tilts the fork and the food falls off. Spoonable foods stay on spoons turned sideways better. But we've been practicing stabbing food with the fork- and we have a lot of fun doing it! I think the funniest is when he can't stab something, so he'll pick it up and put it on the tines of the fork. I know at some point he's going to be super at the whole feeding himself, but it's definitely cool to watch him figure this whole thing out.
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