Gotta Start Somewhere!

A couple of weekends ago, Ben started feeding the kids yogurt for their snack. However, every time the spoon came to their mouth they would grab on to it, and were not very happy to give it back to Ben.

I suggested that we let them try to use the spoon themselves. I think Ben thought I was crazy, but I figured they have to learn eventually and they have to start somewhere. We split the yogurt into two separate bowls and gave them each a spoon. The result wasn't pretty. In fact, for two people who don't enjoy getting dirty, it was down right painful to watch!


Olivia seem to get the concept down, but wasn't too good with it. Alex, on the other hand, held the spoon, and tried to eat the yogurt with his hand rather than the spoon. But some how, Olivia was much more messy. Perhaps it was because she was getting more to her mouth by using the spoon rather than Alex's method of picking up yogurt with his fingers!