Developmental Milestones

Joash drinking from a normal straw.

Don't worry folks, it's orange juice in that cup. :)

Although Joash's agility and sense of balance are very impressive, he is rather slow in other areas in his development. It took him months before he, at long last, stopped playing with his finger food and put them into his mouth to eat. He only started to really drink from the straw cup in earnest without spitting the contents out half a year after I bought the item. Recently, he finally masters the art of drinking from normal straws when before he only could drink from the soft straw of the Mag Mag cup and refused to suck from regular ones.

It is a good thing that I've never been in a hurry for him to learn independence or self-care since he'll have a lifetime of doing that soon enough. Or else, I would have been really frustrated with him.

Now, he is starting to attempt feeding himself but I can tell that he is far from ready as he insists on gripping the spoon at its tip with only his fingertips, thus limiting his control of the spoon, and has the tendency to hold the spoon facing down, which means most of the time, he is not getting any food even though the spoon goes into his mouth. I'll offer to help him but he just stubbornly refuses so I can only wait for him to lose patience with not eating anything despite his efforts and eventually hand the spoon back to me.

Meal times have officially lengthened in their duration.

P/S: He has been very interested in holding onto my mug whenever I drink something but no matter how I teach him, he still has absolutely no idea how to drink straight from it. *laughs*