We’ve gotten into the habit of giving Nathan one of his spoons to hold or play with while we’re feeding him. Sometimes he wont let us spoon feed him unless he has one, and the last few days he started to want to put his spoon in the food. Yesterday I helped him guide the spoon from the bowl of yogurt into his mouth, which he really liked.

Well, last night at dinner he was eating pieces of a quesadilla and we watched him place a piece on his spoon and maneuver the spoon into his mouth with the food on it! He did it all by himself, no prompting or help from us at all. Gary and I just started at each other in amazement. Once we picked our jaws up off the floor, we yelled “yay!” and clapped, which made Nathan very proud of himself. He had the biggest grin as he clapped along with us.

There have been a few times over the last year where its like a light switch just went off in Nathan’s head and all of a sudden he’s doing lots of new and amazing stuff. The last few days have been like that again. With the self-feeding interest, and also all the “talking” he’s begun doing. He’ll point to things and in his own baby gibberish language seem to ask us what it is, or he’ll be playing and just babbling away. Its more than the mamas and dadas that he was doing before, now it’s all kinds of consonant and vowels sounds mixed together. It’s like he thinks he’s saying complete sentences that make total sense. He’s also started saying “nana” when he wants something.

Cool, huh?