Blueberries with yogurt, strawberries, toast, kamut puffs
Here’s how Isaac eats fruit. Because he won’t take it from a spoon this week (he is exactly ten months old today) I cut it up fine and put it on the tray of his high chair. He picks it up with either hand and pilots it toward his mouth. When I say “picks it up” I’m probably not conveying what happens. He’ll sometimes take a piece of strawberry by closing his fat baby fist around it, getting it with the the crinkle of skin between his pinky and the heel of his hand. But when his hand reaches his mouth, he sticks in the part between his thumb and his forefinger, and releases, and the strawberry falls back to the tray, where he’ll sometimes notice it (if there are no lights, fans, beeps, or other food to distract him) and start again.
The kamut puffs are for distraction. I pile them on the tray while I cut up fruit and he chomps away at them. I think he would continue eating them as long as I kept putting more in front of him, but eventually I add some strawberries to the mix, and then he mostly ignores the kamut. I’m also trying to get yogurt into him, this time with blueberries, but mostly without success. Once the blueberries are mostly on the floor, I give up and make him whole-wheat toast, which he eats quickly, then squeals for more. I eat the crusts.
