The boys are eating almost all solid foods now.  Still a lot of purees, as they’re not eager to chew anything that takes too much work, but they haven’t had a bottle in a few months.  They have three regular meals a day, and 2-3 snacks.  They do fine with finger foods, and we’re working on getting them to use silverware.  Both boys will make a fair attempt with the fork.  Nicholas tries hard, and usually successfully.  Sometimes, though, he cheats by picking up the food with one hand, and then putting it onto the fork before putting the fork into his mouth.  This I can accept.

Dexter, on the other hand, just gets all stabby with it, and tries to viciously murder his food repeatedly.  If he successfully spears any food it’s likely an accident, and he’s just as likely to fling the food back off the fork before he notices.  And then when he does manage to get something onto his fork, he doesn’t always place the fork exactly where we might like.

As for spoons, we’re not even pretending that we’re ready for that yet.  We let them play with them occasionally with some really sticky foods, but they don’t keep it right-side-up yet, so not much success to be had.

We’re also still using mostly sippy cups.  They’ll occasionally try to use cups, but usually this is when we’re not looking.  The other day Katie and I had some hard cider.  Katie was feeding Nic, with her glass on the table.  I had just finished with Dex, and set him on the ground whilst I was cleaning up his tray.

The next thing I knew Katie was swearing.  Her butt was suddenly wet, and when she looked, Dexter was right next to her and had the glass of cider in both hands up to his face, trying to drink the nearly-full glass, and it was pouring down his face and onto his clothes, and the chair, and her backside.  Fortunately he didn’t seem to like the taste much so we don’t have to send him to rehab, but he required an urgent bath lest any visitors raise concerns and call child protective services.

We’re not trying to feed our toddlers alcohol, really.  They just try to feed it to themselves whenever we’re not looking.  We have to hide the liquor cabinet and they aren’t even teenagers yet…

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