He definitely can sign "Eat." LOL. I wasn't sure before, I thought maybe he was just touching his mouth/chewing on his thumb out of tiredness at the same time he was hungry-ish. But just now I carried him into the kitchen and he touched his mouth and said, "Nom-nom" and got all excited about everything I pulled out of the fridge, LOL ( Read more... )

Tonight's dinner was a good example of healthy non-dairy gluten-free family fun. :)

( Indian-Inspired Chicken or Chickpeas )

Today I gave him some quartered grapes. A while later I was holding him and he was working something around in his mouth. He picked out a grape skin, grinned, and tried to shove it in MY mouth ( Read more... )

Edward and I discovered today that dried mangoes ("Just Mangoes" from Trader Joe's) are a lovely self-feeding snack. He can just gnaw and suck on them until they turn into mangoey slime that is then slurped up. Unfortunately, once they've been sucked on for a bit they end up sliming everything they touch. Faces. Hands. Carpets. I left him to his ( Read more... )

I wish I'd had the camera yesterday when Edward was eating a plum right out of his hand. It fit his little fist perfectly and he was in heaven, biting off pieces and saying nom-nom and shoving it in my face to share and occasionally forgetting to hold on to anything but his plum (standing unassisted easily, at least until he noticed, then ( Read more... )

Hm, updatey thing ( Read more... )