Big Girl Dinner

Today Madison ate dinner from a big-girl plate for the first time! Instead of throwing chunks of food onto her highchair tray and eating it with her hands, Mommy decided to try to be civilized and see if she could eat with a fork off of a plate! So here was our first attempt at eating like a very big girl:


Yes, I took a picture of her first "plate" of food. I'm a first-time mother, remember? Its all still exciting to me:

It starts off well. Madison is very happy about her new plate and likes holding the fork:

Slowly she starts abandoning the fork and starts eating the food off the plate with her hands:

And finally, all civility goes out the window as she dumps all the food off the plate and sticks it on her face instead: