Fun with food!

Simon is a great eater! He loves dairy - cheese, cottage cheese, yogurt, ice cream... (well, he is a Brees boy after all!). He also has started taking an interest in utensils. So I bought him a little starter-utensil that he can push food around with, and occasionally even get it in his mouth. Sometimes when I'm feeding him with a spoon, he will take the spoon away from me and put it in his mouth. Then after he's eaten the food off, he will hand it back to me so I can scoop more food up with it, then he will take it back himself and finish it off. Very fun.

As Simon gets more into eating a variety of foods, I am learning why Bounty paper towels are called "the quicker picker upper," and why that is important. :) Abby is also getting fat licking food out of Simon's chair after he is gone and in the tub.

Simon is enjoying all of the summer fruits - he likes blueberries, raspberries, (blackberries - not so much!), peaches, apricots, and all kinds of melon. He still loves the classic succotash but only eats the carrots and an occasional pea. I was puttering around the kitchen the other day while he ate his vegetables, and I heard him gagging... I looked over and a smooshed up lima bean was making its way out of his pursed lips. So that means he doesn't like lima beans!! Oh well!