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| Oh look, biscuits for dinner....again. |
We've made a few changes to meal times at our house.
The first big change is that I now leave work earlier so that I'm home in time to eat dinner with Willa. I'd like to say this was because of some kind of warm fuzzy 'let's all eat together' thing, but while that may be how I feel about it now, it actually came about for a different reason. Willa was getting increasingly frustrated at us eating dinner in front of her (with her having been fed the previous hour). She was getting upset at being fended off while I try to scoff dinner before her little possum claws get to it - and so it became the easier thing to make sure we eat at the same time.
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| A pet puppy would help me out with this... |
The second change is that eating together has meant pretty much ditching the high chair. Instead we have dinner picnics. This consists of spreading a big rug/blanket on the floor of the lounge and sitting down on the floor together to eat. Yep, it's messy. But oh my, it is fun. (And she can't play that game where she drops food over the side of the highchair on to the floor, one piece at a time.)
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| Sometimes I have to help my mouth hold it all in |
The third is that I have given up ownership of my plate. Oh sure, Willa still gets her own little bowl, but the food on my plate is always going to be more interesting (even when it is identical to what is in her bowl). So we share. Turns out that she really likes olives.
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| I can't have eaten it all..... |
3 comments:
OUR BABBY IS FUNNY
she also knows that food tastes better off your plate
Isaac was the same at that age, only food tasted better off Daddy's plate :)
We've been blessed with late-sleeping babies, so we've always eaten all together. I figure that dinner is social as much as nutritional, so it makes sense to eat together as a family.
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