Progress

The boys have not been very happy with my meals the last two weeks. Tonight was no different. Bear started doing his smack smack smack on the high chair sending all his food flying. The carpet is literally covered with his uneaten meal. Coop started feeding me his meal so I knew he didn’t like it. So a little later I pulled out their favorite- hummus. Bear would come up and only eat it if I gave him the spoon. He would take it and run off to eat it then bring me back the spoon for more. Cooper seeing this ran to the silverware drawer opened it, reached in, felt around and pulled out a spoon and handed it to me. He’s never done that before and I just cracked up.

Even bigger news: Bear has figured out how to drink from a straw. He has refused every sippy cup no matter the brand. I threw out a whole bag of cups he wouldn’t use. But yesterday he was playing with my water bottle and all of a sudden he was getting little sips in. All day I tried to get him to take sips from the water bottle to no avail. But tonight after their bath Coop was drinking some of my water and Bear comes over and starts blowing then sucking and getting sips of water. He did it over and over and actually enjoying his drink! When he was done he put it back on my lap looked me right in the eye and said, “Dat you.” A little while later he comes back pulls it down and takes a few more sips and says, “Got it!” That was the first I had heard him say that so I was tickled.