Layla HATES anything on her hands that is squishy, cold, wet, slimy, etc. She will hold bread-type things, and feed herself those, but that is IT. So, she still is fed like she is an 8-month-old, for crying out loud! :) She acts like a baby bird if she WILL eat something: opens her mouth wide, tips her head back, but won't touch it with her hands to save her life. (Hello, sensory issues???) She also never wears bibs because she never gets messy while eating. If the smallest grain of rice is still on her lip after she takes a bite she can't stand it. She has to carefully pick it off and put it BACK in the bowl of soup, or whatever she is eating. It's pretty funny, actually. She's handed stuff to Jonas and me that I can't even SEE, but it was really bothering her.
Anyway, it's TIME. Time to be a toddler, not a baby, when it comes to eating. I'm trying to get her used to using a spoon and fold, and (*gasp!*) touching food. This is how rice went last night.
(Layla to herself: "Hands high, hands high! They might touch the rice!")
THRILLED with feeding herself:
Ooooooor, a BETTER idea!
I allowed this to happen for THIS very reason: if she didn't want the rice around she had to TOUCH it! This is her getting disgusted after she forgot and tried to sweep it off her tray, and then trying to pick every last grain off of her hands:
