But they were organic cheesy poofs, so that is clearly excellent parenting.
Second was the incident with the spoon. The Beast is cutting molars (which is as fun as it sounds) and has been all over the place with eating (see above cheesy poof reference). Yesterday I was talking to his daycare teacher about what he ate for lunch. They had served rice and turkey. She was telling me that he wasn't excited about eating it and she had to help him eat it. I said, "so you finger fed it to him?" She responded that she helped him with the spoon. I said, "oh he doesn't use a spoon." She looked at me kinda strange and said, "he uses a spoon all the time." And then another teacher piped up, "he's really good with a spoon."
What. The. Hell. How did I not know my 13 month old uses a spoon? I have never even attempted giving him a spoon. I was just about to launch into full on research on when and how to introduce utensils. But he's already freaking using one? What else is he doing during the day I don't know about? Algebra? Is he driving? It is such a bizarre feeling to realize that my child does something during the day that I didn't know about it. But I'm proud of the little guy for being such a big boy with a spoon. Now if daycare wants to go ahead and potty train him and just hand him over one day with, "oh he uses the potty now," I'll be just fine with that.
I guess it really does take a village.
Don't feel bad about the spoon thing. Our day care had both of my kids drinking out of regular cups and using utensils before I had a clue what was happening. I like to think that day care is sort of like a kid's version of Vegas- what happens at day care, stays at day care.
ReplyDeleteHA! The spoon thing made me laugh aloud. Echoing Cloud's comment. We had the exact same thing with cup drinking!
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