Self-feeding

Today marks a very special milestone. Swe-cha ate an entire meal at home all by himself - what's even more special about this milestone is that he initiated this himself. Prior to this, the most I'd get him to self-feed was half of his meal & after that, he'd have to be spoon-fed.

Tonight, I had made him a bowl of rice noodles and set it aside on the table to cool. I left for the kitchen to prep the rest of our food and when I got back, he had already grabbed a fork and had already fed himself the few strands that happened to get

I hurriedly got his plastic bowl and poured a bit of the warm misua and let him at it. He ate it all.

The thing is that he does not like to wear a bib most times (big boy na eh) so it gets messy but hey, nobody's complaining. I'm just so happy that he's finally doing this.

His teacher at school tells me that he has been feeding himself during lunch time most days since last week but this is the first time I've seen him do it for an entire meal at home.