A hint of independence

He just started cereal a few weeks ago and already he is insisting on feeding himself. Feeding time thus takes longer and is waay messier these days.

He's trying to figure out how this spoon thing works. I think he partially has it. He actually lets go when he wants a re-load of cereal so I think he's getting it. He needs to work on the coordination a bit. But no rush there... he's only six and a half months old (and really, only four and a half in his corrected age).

Before, during and after shots here.

I should add here that the breakfast routine is usually between Daddy and Dex. Dad takes the first shift of the day. It usually starts with the first diaper change and a change of outfit upstairs. Then, they move downstairs where they make coffee. I believe Dexter knows more about coffee than most adults -- how coffee plants are planted in Ethiopia, or Costa Rica, or elsewhere; how beans are harvested when they are ripe then sold to imperialist profiteers raping the land of third world nations. But we tell Dex that we only buy fair trade coffee and we buy green beans so that we get the freshest cup of coffee we can. But, I digress. The point is, Daddy had a meeting this morning so Mom took over the feeding and of course, she can't resist a good photo op.