Weekend Kat Blogging: Using a Spoon!

Every milestone is exciting, but this one in particular is very exciting to me.

Kat has been primarily feeding herself for a couple of months, but she was using her hands exclusively. Now, she is using her spoon for most foods that grownups use utensils for, and can even slurp milk from a spoon with her cereal.

She isn’t even too messy, which is also amazing. In fact, she is the least messy kid I have ever watched eat. She is very deliberate in her actions and her face is always filled with serious thought as she carefully chooses each morsel to bring to her mouth next.

It is terribly cute.

Here, you can see her having a snack of rice pilaf with peas, carrots and cheese.

At first, her timing on when to open her mouth as she brought the spoon up was a little off, but she has improved a good bit, and now she has it down perfectly.

Well, not quite perfectly. She does spill stuff down her front, and sometimes instead of the bib catching it, it falls to the footrest of her Svan high chair. (Which is the best high chair ever–I love it. It isn’t a bunch of ugly plastic, and it has a great, neat design, and it doesn’t take up half a room. What is up with the giant high chairs? Babies are little, right?)

When food falls to the footrest or the floor, the cats act as clean-up crew–particularly Cordelia, who follows Kat around everywhere, almost like a dog.

Delia is very cute with Kat. Not only does she help clean up Kat’s little food mishaps, she also likes to cuddle with her when she takes naps on the couch.

Yesterday, while Morganna and I were at work, kicking ass and taking names in the kitchen (It was a very busy shift, but we never had a kitchen drama or freakout at all–we didn’t just keep up with the servers, we sometimes were a little too fast for them) Zak was watching Kat as he always does. And while he was watching her, she fell asleep on his lap. He was able to move her to the couch, and after he had her secured with pillows and the baby monitor, he went to the kitchen to get some coffee. He was only gone for a few minutes, but when he came back, he saw that Delia, whom Kat calls Deeya, had gotten up on the couch and settled in to share napspace with Kat.

Both baby and kitten slept quite comfortably for several hours.

When I got home, Kat helped us eat some pizza (I was too tired to cook at ten-thirty at night), even going so far as to grab a whole piece from Zak’s pie, and taking bites from it. She is learning exactly how useful teeth can be! (Deeya helped us eat pizza, too. She likes the crust best. Strange critter.)

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1. Ah, the littlest gourmand! Too cute. I love the couch sprawl.

   Comment by Kitt — March 16, 2008 #

2. Little Kat sleeping on the couch with Deeya has got to be the cutest thing ever! My “baby” is 7 1/2 now, and I really really miss this age, and all the amazing developments that come with it *sniff* Thanks for taking the time to share Kat’s wonders and discoveries with all of us.

   Comment by De in D.C. — March 16, 2008 #

3. Truly a milestone! My son was a pretty neat eater as a baby also. He didn’t throw his food and rarely got any on himself. Now he’s 5 and messier than he was at 10 months old…go figure!

   Comment by Fran — March 17, 2008 #

4. I thought I recognized that Kat!

   Comment by Jeana Wycuff — May 21, 2008 #

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