Spoon Food

He's been watching me eat. More specifically, he's been carefully studying spoons and forks laden with food as they make their way from my plate to my mouth, and then he watches the chewing. He's interested in eating like the rest of us. So we've been shoving spoonfulls of applesauce into his mouth for the past few days with one of those little spoons. Usually he's kind of interested in it and works on his primitive chewing skills, but then he grimaces a little and spits most of it out. But today Claire reported that "about 90% of the applesauce stayed in."

This is what it looks like when a person first eats from a utensil:



Tomorrow we give him his first chili.