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ellenmillionWhat kinds of foods do you like to give toddlers to encourage them to feed themselves? Preferably things that do not result in Yogurtbeard, Scourge of the Kitchen:
She clearly hasn't mastered that spoon yet!
A nice weekend. I let Jake be Dad for a good chunk of time, put on my headphones, and dove into some programming for clients that had stacked up on my to-do list. I haven't had such a long block of time without distraction for a while, and made excellent progress. I also leveled up in Wordpress and like it much better than I used to. Oh, plugins, you are so delightfully user-friendly! The weather was gorgeous, so we spent some time outdoors, and there was much playing and giggling and lots of music and amazing food (fresh everything-slaw, grilled steaks, grilled chicken tarragon salad, everything-fruit pie that included cherries, pineapple, pear, coconut, walnuts, rhubarb and raisins!...), plus a long walk with the dog. I got just a little bit of art time this evening (despite a baby who INSISTED she was not ready for bed and got a late second dinner after wailing from her crib for a long while), and did manage to weave out three short poems for the Muse Fusion and start another! Sadly, I did NOT get a new installment for Torn World finished. I have decided I need to completely scrap what I've got written and start again. Two weeks in a row without updates! I'm sorry to my three or four loyal readers!
Today I must try to get bear photos for Guppy's 17-month birthday (yesterday!) and make bread, write, program, be Mom, and take over the world. Getting right on that.
She clearly hasn't mastered that spoon yet!
A nice weekend. I let Jake be Dad for a good chunk of time, put on my headphones, and dove into some programming for clients that had stacked up on my to-do list. I haven't had such a long block of time without distraction for a while, and made excellent progress. I also leveled up in Wordpress and like it much better than I used to. Oh, plugins, you are so delightfully user-friendly! The weather was gorgeous, so we spent some time outdoors, and there was much playing and giggling and lots of music and amazing food (fresh everything-slaw, grilled steaks, grilled chicken tarragon salad, everything-fruit pie that included cherries, pineapple, pear, coconut, walnuts, rhubarb and raisins!...), plus a long walk with the dog. I got just a little bit of art time this evening (despite a baby who INSISTED she was not ready for bed and got a late second dinner after wailing from her crib for a long while), and did manage to weave out three short poems for the Muse Fusion and start another! Sadly, I did NOT get a new installment for Torn World finished. I have decided I need to completely scrap what I've got written and start again. Two weeks in a row without updates! I'm sorry to my three or four loyal readers!
Today I must try to get bear photos for Guppy's 17-month birthday (yesterday!) and make bread, write, program, be Mom, and take over the world. Getting right on that.
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Date: 2013-07-29 04:16 pm (UTC)Anyway, when you find the snack, let me know! My kids look like that several times a day! :p
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Date: 2013-07-29 04:42 pm (UTC)The Guppy's about one and a half? The pair of twins I know about that age can both handle finger food fine (when they want to), but one is a determined self-feeder and can wrangle spearing things on a fork to feed herself when she wants to eat like the grownups (slowly, but with determination -- she will accept someone handing her a fork with food on it towards encouraging her to eat more solids, but isn't fond of someone else putting a utensil in her mouth) and dipping a big chunk of bread into thick soup and taking a bite, while the other one still thinks tablewear is for playing with and is happy to let someone else spoon food into his mouth.
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Date: 2013-07-29 08:13 pm (UTC)The things I've been told to be careful of are whether they can chew well enough to reduce whatever pieces they're given to digestable size, and whether they can protect their airway well enough that they're not going to choke on a piece that's a little too big. ("Do I need to cut up the grapes?")
My favorite "babies are different" story is from a while back. Two daughters of different friends, about the same age, had very different priorities. Little Miss Extrovert wanted to SIT UP, so that she could see and interact with people. Once she could do that, getting places wasn't urgent -- she was happy to interact from across the room, even, and good at telling when someone was paying attention to her or addressing her. Little Miss World Traveller didn't care what you were doing, she wanted to GO. She was doggedly trying to crawl when she still had to do a five-point crawl because she couldn't hold her head up for very long.
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Date: 2013-07-29 07:01 pm (UTC)When he was younger, toast with ghee or apple butter was a favorite. If guppy is old enough, hard boiled eggs may also appeal.
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Date: 2013-07-29 07:56 pm (UTC)We did Cheerios for a while, but they're astonishingly high in sodium, so that stopped when I started having to check labels for my own consumption.
He also enjoys olives, but those are only available when the hubby gets them out. I am not a fan. :)
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Date: 2013-07-29 10:31 pm (UTC)Her hair is looking lovely :)
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Date: 2013-07-29 10:48 pm (UTC)Actually, both my kids moved to finger foods from adult-spoon-feeding very early, probably because I'm not much of a spoon-feeder. The big problem I had/had was keeping them at the table eating, rather than getting bored and escaping. But Killian is a big fan of string cheese, apple chunks, peaches (whole or cut up), avocado cubes, toast squares, strawberries, chicken cubes, peanut shells (alas), french fries, bananas, mommy's baked potato, mommy's cabbage, mommy's ...
We did use squishy bags for a while but it was a ways back. So, er, I'm not very useful because I never had to encourage my kids to feed themselves, now that I think about it. Er. Carry on!
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Date: 2013-07-30 02:32 pm (UTC)