We have been going through lots of changes as far as Henry's eating is concerned. He weights 24.2 pounds now, and is 33 inches tall, so his nutrition intake is good. He was 17 pounds and 29 inches eight months ago. But he has stopped allowing me to feed him, he wants to use a spoon and feed himself. The food was still the soft mushy babyfood type stuff, and all went okay when he just got it on his hands. But he started smearing it on his face and the tray and the seat and his cup. Even that was tolerable, but in the past week he has also started smearing the food in his hair.
Last Saturday I made an enplanned visit to the grocery store to find non-mushy food that he wouldn't be as likely to make a mess out of. These macaroni and cheese wheels worked much better than the mashed up baby food macaroni and cheese. At least most of it went in his mouth and there wasn't as much to wipe in his hair.
It could also have helped that he wasn't sleepy, as he was in the first photo. When we get home there is a small window of time before he starts getting sleepy, and yet he is also incredibly hungry. I've found if he is sleepy when he tries to eat that is when the food winds up all over the place.
And just to show that he is cleaned up when I take him out, this photo was taken this morning on the way to the library.
We have been going through lots of changes as far as Henry's eating is concerned. He weights 24.2 pounds now, and is 33 inches tall, so his nutrition intake is good. He was 17 pounds and 29 inches eight months ago. But he has stopped allowing me to feed him, he wants to use a spoon and feed himself. The food was still the soft mushy babyfood type stuff, and all went okay when he just got it on his hands. But he started smearing it on his face and the tray and the seat and his cup. Even that was tolerable, but in the past week he has also started smearing the food in his hair.
Last Saturday I made an enplanned visit to the grocery store to find non-mushy food that he wouldn't be as likely to make a mess out of. These macaroni and cheese wheels worked much better than the mashed up baby food macaroni and cheese. At least most of it went in his mouth and there wasn't as much to wipe in his hair.
It could also have helped that he wasn't sleepy, as he was in the first photo. When we get home there is a small window of time before he starts getting sleepy, and yet he is also incredibly hungry. I've found if he is sleepy when he tries to eat that is when the food winds up all over the place.
And just to show that he is cleaned up when I take him out, this photo was taken this morning on the way to the library.
3 comments:
Cute. I bet he enjoys the textures of the solid foods more too, and so is less bored and plays with it (slightly) less. Lucy likes chunks of tofu, veggie hot dogs (sliced lengthwise into quarters), peas...all not too messy.
So funny! Love the title of your post and the photos. He'll grow out of it, but until then, he does give new meaning to the words, "eating dinner." What a cutie Henry is.
I love the picture of Henry w/ the sunlight shining on him!! He's so cute and you're an amazing Daddy!
Felicia in NC
(my best friend is adopting a son from Vietnam & is over there waiting it out right now)
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