I wasn't quite prepared for the furvor with which Peter and Lucy would insist on feeding Thomas.
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We picked out a highchair for Thomas, and I had some vague notion of trying to feed him something at some time. Certianly not the moment we came home from the store.
Yet.
Within moments of shutting our front door and taking off our shoes, Peter and Lucy had openend the two packages of Thomas's highchair and started trying to assemble it.
I opened up the directions and took advantage of IKEA's language-free graphic instructions to let them figure out what to do. Out of their range for sure, but they could do helpful bits such as look for the numbers to find the next step and give me general pointers as to what should be done.
Once assembled, I put Thomas in to see if he liked it.
And then:
Peter ran to the kitchen for a banana. Nevermind that Thomas was in the middle of the living room, he was going to eat NOW! I managed to get Thomas to the table and have someone fetch a bib for him before a banana was placed in his hands.
I tried to call Kevin - "let's let Daddy hear this, too!" - and take pictures. Don't these children know that first foods are to be documented?
Thomas says, get that away from me!
In the end, Thomas was not too keen on bananas, nor the four hands and forty fingers shoving pices of it in his face. He wasn't even tempeted to eat it when Peter dangled it in front of him with a teasing, "it's paper, Thomas! you can eat paper!"
We observed that Thomas didn't like banana, and it was off to the kitchen to find something he would like. Peter returned with a bag of carrots. Lucy insisted Thomas would be much happier if he had his banana with a spoon in his new wooden bowl.
Peter and Lucy decide to stuff it in
I'm in no hurry to replicate this experiment, but it is nice to have Thomas at the table with us.
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