Table Manners

Reuben is still on his porridge diet. In fact, Phoebe too. They have porridge for lunch and dinner. They seems to like it and on days when I decided to give Phoebe rice instead, she would ask for porridge. I like giving them porridge because I think it is really wholesome food, easily digestible and always filled with all the goodness - fish, pork ribs soup, chicken soup, pumpkin, carrot, sweet potato, sweet corn, tomato, broccoli, spinach etc. I always try to rotate the ingredients so that the children will not get sick of tasting the same food.

But as their taste buds developed, Reuben has also shown interest in our food. He particularly likes savoury food, unlike Phoebe who has sweet tooth. During our dinner time, he would like to clamber up our laps to check on our food. During one of the CNY sessions in grandparents' place, he managed convince his grandma to hoist him up onto her lap after some whining. Once he was up there, he would survey the food and then indicate what he wants to try. My sister actually disapproved of this behaviour because she said it's a bad habit and table manners. But we still let him be. Why ? A good reason would be - It's good to let him have a taste of our food to increase his appetite, that would make the transition from semi-solid diet to solid diet easier. The truth is, we cannot exactly stand his whining and puppy-eyes! Haha. So talk about table manners, he doesn't really have, we neither! :)