Eating

Klayton has a new fun way to enjoy food. Teeth! Yes, he finally has teeth. It took a while for the teeth to come in and now they are coming in like crazy. When we got back from Mexico he had one tooth that was just about showing. Now it is almost all the way in and the 2nd bottom tooth has appeared and the top tooth should be breaking the skin any day now. By looking in his mouth I swear he could have a full set in the next month but I am not a dentist and I thought he was going to have his 1st tooth at 3 months (I wasn't too good at detecting the signs of teething).

Our little guy has always enjoyed eating and everything has gone straight into his mouth since the time he was 5 months so table food has been a fun progression. Most of the time at night now he has something that we are eating. It ranges from beans to potatoes to peas or even his all time favorite, macaroni and cheese. He ate all of that before he had teeth I can't imagine what he is going to do now. He does have a few opinions about what he eats though. Maybe he just doesn't like the color orange (ha! ha!) but he does not like peaches or cantaloupe. He'll eat them out of a baby food jar but don't even think about trying them fresh. I even tried to sneak them in other foods and he will eat everything and then spit out the peach. Nice right! Bananas are another one of his favorites but that is about the only fruit he likes fresh so we still have to do some baby food. This picture is the lovely daily mess we clean up. Of course blueberries make the mess even more fun. Hey I said he likes to eat not that he was a neat eater. And don't even think about taking a paper towel to his face to clean him up. He screams like we are absolutely torturing him. Instead we take him to the faucet to wash his hands like a big boy. Hope we are not starting bad habits.

Last week he found a new trick with the highchair. He can lift the tray. That means that no food is safe and watch your fingers because if he bangs the tray down with your fingers (or worse his toes) under it, not a pretty sight. But he is very proud of himself and so are we. He always makes us smile.