Food Wars... continued...

So my little picky eater has put up quite a battle in the week since we found out he was slightly anemic. Well, what do you know he hasn't even so much as licked any of the new foods I've given him, let alone put a whole piece in his mouth. On the menu for lunch today was ravioli. I've tried at least 5 times to get him to eat it with abolutely no results.

Today I got serious (as if I wasn't already), or maybe a little lucky. When I was dishing out his ravioli onto his highchair tray he took the fork away from me. Thankfully it was a baby fork, and thinking he might be onto something, I let him keep it. I grabbed a second fork, and put the rest on his plate. Within a few seconds he was stabbing away somewhat successfully. He is pretty good with a spoon, but usually not that great with the fork. Somehow he managed to get a piece of ravioli onto the fork, and then stuck it in his mouth! Voila! He loved it!
He messed around with stabbing the pieces and licking the sauce off the fork for a few minutes, but eventually just dropped the fork and started scarfing down the ravioli with his hands. HAHA! I feel like I just won a huge battle!

Maybe it was the *fun* of the fork, or maybe my luck just changed a bit today. Whatever... he ate it and even more importantly, he LOVED it!!!!! And then the clean up was even more fun...