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Slurping Spaghetti

The kid learned how slurp spaghetti yesterday during lunch. He was struggling to eat it at first, mystified by the long strands that just wouldn’t seem to cooperate. Then, in a moment of pure brilliance and discovery, he sucked in his breath quickly and the piece of spaghetti zoomed into is mouth with a heartening “Sluurrrrrp!” sound.

He grinned triumphantly. And so did I.

Until I had to wipe him down anyways.

March 1st, 2009 | Category: Uncategorized

5 comments to Slurping Spaghetti

  • Lisa
    03/01/2009 at 10:20 pm

    Love the messy foods!!!

  • (F)reddy
    03/01/2009 at 10:45 pm

    That’s awesome. I’m totally making sketti tomorrow.

  • Graceful J Cornmom
    03/02/2009 at 10:15 am

    Wow, he’s so advanced for his age. That’s great. It’s hard not to compare with other kids and feel bad that mine isn’t doing everything yet. My lil man Stan just started crawling this weekend. (I put a video of him crawling on his blog.) I know if he’s lagging behind it’s not by much he’s just doing stuff at his own pace. Now that he’s crawling it won’t be long at all before he’s walking since he’s always trying to pull himself up. I’ve so got to give Stan more big people food for him to try to eat. He did try a lil pancake at IHOP over the weekend.
    –Joyce

  • Otter
    03/02/2009 at 3:29 pm

    That’s a great picture. Sadly I often look like that after eating spaghetti too. At least Will has someone else to clean him up.

  • Cape Cod Gal
    03/02/2009 at 5:48 pm

    Wipe???? I would say hose down is a better idea. He has it everywhere!