An Independant Man

That's Bentley! This past week he decided that he wanted to take control of his eating regime in a more hands on way. Bentle is learning to use silverware! The progress looks to be very slow to me, as sometimes he sits in the high chair for more than 30 minutes and probably doesn't eat more than 1/2 teaspoon of food. But for whatever reason he has decided that letting other people feed him is no longer acceptable. He holds the spoon by the very end with two fingers, and dabs it in the food. Then the spoon is put slowly into the mouth (upside down, of course) and sometimes there is even a speck of food left on the spoon to lick off. Today, for the first time, he's actually putting the spoon into the bowl and then into the mouth with the right side up - enabling 3 specks of food to make it into the mouth. Great progress!