We’ve discovered that Miss Leyba eats a greater quantity of solid food when she feeds herself. We put some pureed deliciousness on a teaspoon (because she only wants to eat from our spoons… not hers) and then hand it to her and she feeds herself. Sometimes she’s really devious and gets a hold of the bowl too.
Love my independent woman.
To date, she’s currently tried:
- butternut squash,
- avocado,
- banana,
- quinoa and rice cereals,
- apple,
- pear, and
- peas.
Banana is by far her favorite, especially when she’s sharing one that I’m eating… it’s messy, but fun!
Friends gave us their used Stokke Tripp Trapp
(The adorable place mat is by Crocodile Creek
heeeeeee! i love the food up in her eyebrows. :-)
I try to clean her up after each meal, but there always seems to be some area that I miss (mostly because she’s SO not interested in me cleaning her face). Today there was a bit of squash/apple mixture on her cheek that I just discovered.
She frequently has food in her hair and behind her ears too. And on her sleeves. And sometimes in her lap.
Babies are such messy eaters. They have so much fun.
are you sure she’s actually ingesting it? seems like she’s wearing most of the contents of that bowl ;)
Look at her having a blast! Food is probably so much more fun that way. (jeez, if *I* got to wave a spoon around and smush fun food textures with my hands and grab the bowl while someone tried to keep it steady, I’d totally eat more of whatever it was than if someone spoon-fed it to me. =D Whee!) I love that Miss Leyba is an independent woman! I also love that chair. THAT is super-cool.