The Finger Bone's connected to the Taste Buds!

The reality that in just 3 short weeks Kai will be a year-old is starting to descend on me. And the fact that he should be off of baby food soon is quite scary! I have really tried to work on introducing him to more table food lately. For us that means that I have to prepare dinner earlier so that Kai will have something before he goes to bed. And Reid's starting to come home from work a little early every once in a while so that we can eat together. I have also started creating a weekly menu at the beginning of the week so that will eliminate a lot of the stalling on dinner.

So, dinner last night was sausage lentil soup--which has a story of its own. (I'll do that in another post.) Unfortunately, dinner wasn't ready before Kai's bedtime--it took too long to prepare with an 11-month old strapped to my legs making moving relatively impossible. (Kai is suffering a bit from separation anxiety.) Luckily, though, we had some left over and so I decided that Kai and I would have soup for lunch. Kai took one bite and wouldn't have anything to with it. Honestly, I was disappointed. It's great soup and I really need him to learn to eat something else. So, I left the bowl of soup out and started feeding him his sweet potatoes. A few minutes later, Kai reached for the soup bowl. I brought it closer to him and let his fingers explore a bit in the bowl. And then while he wasn't looking, I snuck in a spoonful of soup. And then another, and another, and before he knew it there was no soup left to dip his fingers in! He ate his whole bowl of soup--including the vegetables!

Maybe I'm the last mother to figure out that the finger bone is connected to the taste buds--but at least I figured it out! He made a MESS at his high chair which I'm not looking forward to. And I had to change all of his clothes. But he ate the soup, and that is a victory in my book!