We have decided, we hate dinner time!

Keith and I were thinking about it tonight and we can't really remember a time when dinner went well with the boys. To be honest, it has been a struggle since we started cereal 15 months ago.  Tonight Carter did great, but this is how it went with Dylan. 

Homemade chicken & wild rice soup, no!

broccoli, no.

left over taco meat and rice, no on the meat, he ate the rice!

Unfortunately, all he wanted was the rice, and that was gone.

screaming and crying and pushing things off the table.

Freshly sliced deli turkey, no. (he couldn't get enough two nights ago)

banana, no.

bowl of soup is thrown across the table, fork & spoon flying across the room!  Sweet!  Glad Stella wasn't in range.

Lots of screaming and crying.

I quickly put a 90 second rice packet in the microwave.  Success!

About 3 bites of banana and two bites of turkey.

The End!

I think the moment the soup was dripping off the table, we both felt that this was one of our worst dinners with Dylan.  Carter enjoyed the buffet of food we kept giving him, so he was great! 

On a positive note, here are some fun pictures of when Dylan was fun tonight.

What is this? Plates? Forks?

Good news, my boys may not be eating with their hands forever! First off, the boys HATE to be fed, so I pretty much never give them anything that they can't pick up with their hands. I send things like yogurt, oatmeal and pudding to daycare and let them battle it out.

So it had been a while since we had let them try silverware and we never gave them plates in fear that they would end up on the floor. So I figured they need to learn sooner or later.

So far they are doing a GREAT job. They have fun with it, they picked up on it right away and manage to get some bites into their mouths. I think by the end of their meals they are back to using their fingers. Since we started using the plates they have actually reduced the amount of food they throw (yes THROW, not accidentally drop) onto the floor). Bummer for Stella!

I'm pretty sure he is thinking what is up with this mom?

I like to play with the fork, but my fingers are much better!