The Story of Puffs

They make these cute little things for babies that look like some sort of cereal but are really melt in your mouth vegetable or fruit based "puffs". Name of the game with these puffs is get your baby learning to eat using their fingers (aka finger feeding in baby world) while using a food that doesn't pose a major choking hazard.

So I bought some of these puffs for the little man in the sweet potato variety to get him started. For the past few weeks I have been putting them out on his tray at meal times. So he could start exploring and get the hang of this finger feeding business...

It's taken some time for him to figure out precisely what a puff is and how it fits into his world. At first he was all like " Puffs are fun to swat and smash and throw on the ground!" Then somewhere along the line, the inevitable happened and he got one near enough to his mouth to get a lick. Well of course this led to the discovery that puffs were definitely not meant to be swatted and smashed and thrown to the ground. No, these puffs were sweet and delicious! Perfect little meal time treats! From that point on it became a quest to get these puffs into his mouth.

This was no easy feat. Puffs proved to be quite rascally. They sometimes stuck to his fingers and they sometimes slipped off his fingers. Sometimes he could just about get them almost just close enough to his mouth but not quite. Sometimes he could get them in his hair and sometimes he could get them stuck down his shirt. But he could not seem to get them stuck in his mouth. How irritating!!!!

But Cam kept after it. And then, this past Saturday, things changed.

It happened seemingly out of the blue. One minute the puff was on the tray and the next it was right where he wanted it. Little man just zeroed in on his target, grabbed it up and straight into his mouth it went! A bit of gum mashing and a few chews (which are the cutest things ever to see) and it was all over. So exciting!

And now he will eat puffs as fast as those little fingers can get them in his mouth. I have to keep telling him to slow down and eat only one at a time! You could just see how thrilled he was to be doing this all on his own. It's amazing.

Puffs, who knew.