Challenge #1 opening the mouth
*They open their mouth for every thing that gets put in front of their face until you put a spoon with food on it.
Challenge #2 Swallowing
*Babies are used to swallowing from a bottle/ breast
*The way they are used to swallowing pushes their tongue out which also pushes their food out.
Challenge #3 Vegetables
*New tastes which brings alot of wide open mouths with the food sitting on their tongue for a while. (you can pretty much go back to #1 now)
Challenge #4 Vegetables again
*So they love the vegetables then you introduce fruit and we all know that fruit is so much yummier.
*This is where the tricking comes into play I do it something like this
-bite 1- fruit
-bite 2- fruit
-bite 3- vegetable (he thinks fruit is coming because he has already had 2 consistent bites. You better believe those veggie bites are pretty big)
Challenge #5 Keeping the spoon in your hands
*They are so quick their little arms beat me every time.
*If this happens plan on food being everywhere because they flap those little arms like crazy. (remember there was food on the spoon because you were hoping to get it in their mouth)
Challenge #6 The latest blowing bubbles
*This is where you wish they understood NO
Challenge #7 Cleaning
*That dang baby food leaves some good stains on my baby, me, and the carpet from the spit up that comes an hour after eating.
So as you can tell from my experience it hasn't been as easy as I thought it would be. Boston loves to blow spit bubbles and so the second he gets food in his mouth here come the bubbles or food flying in every direction. It's pretty cute actually but man it's alot of work. Lets just say I am very grateful for stain sticks and shampoo because I usually have small chunks of mixed vegetable and peaches in my hair and all over my clothes.
Good luck to everyone who thought it was as easy as I did. I really hope you have better luck than I do.
