High Chair Manners

Addison has been making huge strides in her high chair manners! She is so neat and tidy and well behaved during meal times. If you are not familiar with high chair manners, hop on over to the Little Tummy Yummies blog and check out a great high chair manner summary! Why teach high chair manners? Because this is our first opportunity to begin teaching self control. Self control at the table will translate to self control other places.

Addison keeps her hands either placed in front of her on the tray or close to it. Sometimes she moves her hands around but rarely bangs the tray or grabs the bowl/spoon from Mommy or Daddy. This was not always the case and occasionally we have to remind her "where do our hands go?". From the beginning we tried to teach her not to spit out food or blow it everywhere, so this has never been an issue which means---CLEAN UP IS EASY. Screaming (not out of anger but just for fun) has been a huge challenge for us since she is a motor mouth, but we are making slow progress. When she spills something or blows her food it IS cute, but I try everything I can to contain my laughter; I must remember the big picture!

Things to work on.....KICKING FEET. When she is very excited she kicks her feet wildy. We also need to work on arching her back; this is a hard one to correct!

Here is a picture of Addison with a prune beard; this is about as messy as she ever gets. Most of this mess is my fault too!!! Sometimes we do not even use a bib!

Blurry...it was on my cell phone :)