Olivia Takes Over the Spoon....

Olivia is very good at feeding herself finger foods and taking bites of larger pieces of food, but has never used a spoon or fork on her own. I finally decided to hand the spoon over to her this morning while she ate her yogurt...and she loved it! Olivia doesn't drink milk, so I try to get her to eat yogurt and cheese every day so she gets enough calcium.

She loved using the spoon and trying to feed herself. She was pretty good at it, aside from getting yogurt everywhere else. At one point she tried to eat the yogurt straight from the container, but once she found that it wouldn't work she went back to the spoon. It's a mess but I love how independent she is becoming and how much she enjoys trying to figure new things out.