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With Vai, mealtimes are hardly ever plain nor straight forward. Since the very first day we introduced solids to him at 5.5 months old.

And now, though he can pretty much feed himself with a big spoon and all, it’s still up to his mood - whether he’ll gobble his meal well (self-feed or spoonfed), eat three to four spoonfuls and reject the rest (even if spoonfed), or pick and slowly drop his food down to the floor!

[This is despite our continual effort in teaching him a 'better' eating manner]

And, of course, there are days too where he simply does BOTH.

Like today.

Other than using the spoon, he ‘hand-picked’ his rice, put some into his mouth, dropped some on the table and down to the floor.

And after some five minutes or so, he’d want to get down from the chair, but after some (apparently successful) distractions, he managed to finish up most of his meal by himself.

Oh well, AT LEAST he ate his food, I told myself *rolls eyes*

Anyway, click here to see Vai and his messy (yet relatively ’successful’) mealtime today.

PS: Sitting and eating by the roadside - with things readily seen by the kid - does help in keeping Vai and Anya somewhat ‘entertained’ (even if the ‘entertaining impact’ lasts for a short while, to me it’s still better than nothing)