Feed me, Seymour…

Ellie-May has discovered food. It was a sudden occurence whilst she and I were staying with her grandparents. One minute she was sitting watching us eat, the next she was grabbing at my plate and trying to get bread into her mouth. She can’t coordinate her hands and mouth yet, so in the end she put the bread down and then put her face on the table to chew at it. The dessert course arrived and she went wild with excitement. Because it was small pieces of fruit that she could choke on I didn’t let her have any… and she got quite cross and frustrated! Next we tried banana, which Granddad went out especially to fetch.

Since then she’s eaten a whole range of things from hummus to avocado and cheese. She gets annoyed if I try to mash up a banana and feed it to her, much prefering to gum away like mad at the whole fruit. She’s not keen on being spoon fed at all, but if I load up a spoon and give it to her she puts it straight into her mouth. Once the spoon is empty she throws it over the side of her chair. I pick it up and we start all over again. It’s a messy procedure, but we’re all loving it.

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