Weaning {The Ordinary Moments}
Weaning has been a part of our lives for what feels like forever. Little Man is now a year old and I am very aware that his weaning journey is nearly over – He is getting less messy by the day, hardly anything ends up on the floor and he’ll be eating with cutlery before I know it.
There are times though, when Little Man is as messy eating as he was when he started weaning 6 months ago. We tend to share all our meals with the children, even puddings and Little Man always has his share and loves the treat as much as the rest of us.
Dave and I have found amusement over the last couple of months in the way that Little Man puts food into his mouth. He’ll scoop as much into his fist as possible and then move his fist to his mouth…
He’ll then opens his hand to push the food into his mouth using his palm but spreads his fingers at the same time!
He does this repeatedly through meal times and it makes us laugh constantly like he’s going ‘Ta-Da!’ with every mouthful. He really does love his food and has a great appetite – I haven’t worried about the amount he’s been eating, drinking or whether he’s eating the right things at all. Weaning this time has been a complete joy and so much easier than weaning for the first time.
Yes, weaning has been messy but we’re nearly over that and at times, like this, you just have to embrace the mess 🙂 Weaning has turned to eating which in turn will turn into pretty normal ordinary moments for us.
He’s so cute – I love to see pictures of other people’s messy babies but when it came to it I just couldn’t embrace the mess, so Toby only gets to feed himself with the non-messy foods! Who knows what I’ll be like when it comes to things like painting and playing outside in the mud!!
We still haven’t done painting! AND LP has only recently played in the mud….! x
Aww those are such great photos and brings back memories of D weaning too. So cute!
Ahhh I love this post!! It’s sad that weaning is almost over isn’t it!!! I’ve been lucky like you with little man weaning has been mostly straight forward! He looks so so cute, such great pictures!!