Spooning

Last night, Alison finally mastered the art of feeding herself with a spoon. We gave her some mashed sweet potatoes and she managed to get 75% of the serving into her mouth using a spoon (5% fingers, 20% on jammies/face/Sam). This is the first time she's been able to successfully work a spoon more than once and the first time she did her own "spoon loading" (as opposed to Jeff or I preparing the mouthful for her). I think it helped that Jeff and I were eating chili and she could watch us use our own spoons as a reference. We made sure to make a big fuss every time she did it right, and she was very proud of herself.

(We'll wait a while before we try forks or knives, though!)