As we all know, Alex and food are not friends. He thinks that anything coming near his mouth is evil and destined to piss him off. BUT..we have been playing with food. Cherios, ritz, pretzles, and now he can touch it and not 1. gag 2. cry and 3. throw it back in my face. Personally I am a big fan of the not throwing it at me. His latest trick has been with the Cheerios. He scoops them up from the bowl 1 at a time and ACTS like he is going to eat it off his spoon, but then he flicks it over his shoulder and puts the empty spoon in his mouth. Soooo for the past few days he has been brave....putting the Ritz near his lips..putting his front teeth on the Nilla Wafer...but today....woo frickity hoo...I bought some Cheetos! I thought that if he played with them that he would get orange fingers and maybe he would put them in/near his lips and he would taste something besides air. But that is NOT what happened...what happened was that I sat him at the table with me. I put some Cheetos on a plate for me and some in his "cow" bowl...very cool...moos when you touch the spoon to the inside of the bowl...and what did he do???? HE PICKED IT UP AND PUT IT IN HIS MOUTH!!! Now he wasn't going to bite it because he has no clue what to do with it once it gets into his mouth but he was sucking on the Cheeto! This went on for about 45 minutes until we had a bowl of soggy, naked Cheetos. Salty and cheesy...he is soooooo my kid. So now the question is...How do you teach a kid to swallow?
