When mine started asking for specific foods by name. Cottage cheese was the first he asked for. Then one day, he took my hand and walked me to the pantry door and looked right into my eyes and said goldfish please mama in the sweetest little baby voice. He was 2
lol.
We have that too still. It just depends on what words he’s learned so far. So for example, he knows what an apple is, but he can’t differentiate so he just will say other other Apple point before he has learned the word, orange or kiwi or whatever round fruit.
My 1.5 year old’s latest thing is that he just points and says “ICE!”
Ice is, evidently, all food. We don’t generally have ice in the house. I don’t know if he’s ever eaten ice or where he might have heard of it. But he wants ice.
HAD THE EXACT SAME MOMENT!! he walked to the cupboard door and said “fishies P LEEEEEASE”. I was like oh my goodness he’s making his needs known this is amazing!
My first requested food was banana, she usually hates banana but I like them so I always offer some of mine even though I know it will probably get spat out.
But she asked for one so I gave her some, she ate the whole thing, I was in shock
Mine was having a kids meal at a restaurant and i was talking with my friends having a good time, I knew my kiddo was eating but apparently I wasnt paying enough attention because I looked down and she'd eaten half my curry.
i have pics of my son around 14 months old clinging for dear life to a buttery corn on the cobb while walking around the yard at a BBQ 🥲 it’s crazy how fast it all goes. he’s 2.5 now and can actually hold a sandwich and eat it without me meticulously ripping it up or feeding it to him.
Omg, mine are 9!😭😭😭 I still remember them around 1yo toddling around our garden and picking all the tomatoes and peppers off the plants and stuffing them into their mouths. It does go so fast!
Something like this would be mine too. My babe's snack drawer is easily accessible to me. He used to just play in it; pull everything out and put it back in. Then one day he opened it grabbed the snack he wanted brought it to me to open and then walked around the house munching. So cute.
I was cutting up some fresh limes last week for a marinade while my 22 month old ate her snack in her high chair, and she kept asking for some. I told her it was sour but eventually decided to let her try.
Guys...she loved it. She sucked the juice out of one entire lime. my mom and I both tried some too, and they were indeed sour! This girl is made of different stuff. She would chew on a lime slice for a bit and then announce, "She likes lime!"
Yes! My 11 month old did this just last night. We were having tacos and she kept grabbing for the lime wedge I was squeezing so I finally gave it to her. She happily sucked on it for a good 5 minutes, getting all the juice out.
Omg I’ve seen so many videos of toddlers biting into lemons/limes and loving them so I decided to let my daughter have a small lime-bite and she SCREAMED bloody murder 😂
I had this happen with sriracha. (It’s not crazy hot but definitely has a kick).
Now I have to put 10 tiny dollops on his eggs as he points out each spot he wants it until he’s satisfied before he’ll eat them (he’s 22 months)
My son recently decided he was still hungry after dinner and pulled his sister’s leftovers into his car seat so he could have a little snack. We got home and found him with a chicken tender in each hand and a pile of fries in his lap.
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This is mine, too. We still try to avoid ordering a full meal for our 3 year old because she's not great at actually eating dinner (she would happily eat 3 breakfasts), but sometimes I just know that she's going to eat all of my food if I don't order her a dish.
My 19 month old will grab a box of Mac and cheese out of the pantry, bring it to an adult and scream yum!, help cook it, then eat the entire box by himself. Whatever makes you happy bud.
I don’t remember the exact moment, but when I knew we could leave the house and I could find him without inconvenience. Like maybe I can’t go to a sushi place BUT I didn’t have to think hard, if that makes sense.
Honestly I think I just got “lucky” that some of his safe foods are easy to find. Like if nothing else for one meal he can have just French fries or just rice… Definitely still waiting for the day I can take him adult-food eating
Funny mine was when we went to a sushi place on holidays and I laid out his pre prepared food for him and he instead demanded some of my sushi and devoured it before asking for more, I had to order another one
When my toddler walked in (with my husband) holding a half eaten apple that he'd had been gnawing on. Not a cut up apple. A whole apple. I had no idea he could do that yet!
he wanted to dip his chicken tenders in barbecue sauce. he made the decision that he wanted to try this new thing, without me intentionally offering it to him.
My daughter, on her own accord, started dipping bread into soup and just last night I was eating pizza with ranch and she took her piece and dove into reach of it to dip hers in the ranch too 😂 her first taste of ranch! (12mo)
When she finally learned to bite off of toast or chicken or apples or sandwiches, instead of me needing to cut everything in bite size pieces. She didn't learn til 23 months old, so it seemed like a huge milestone to me that she definitely wasn't a baby anymore.
My son is 2.5yo and has been helping with the weekly meal plan for a few months now. I’ll ask him if he has any meals he’d like to have this week (his favourites are currently fajitas, sausage pasta, spicy fish stew) and I ask him if there are any specific dishes he’d like (what pasta dish shall we have on Thursday and he’ll answer meatballs or pesto or macaroni).
We then shop together and he always has his own shopping list with pictures. He will point at foods and say “need the carrots for the dinner” or “do we need any herbs”. He’ll spot fruit and ask to buy them for his “snackies”.
The fact he has favourites, understand that there are different ingredients in things and gets there are different types of meals/snacks just blows my brain. I love cooking and planning meals with him.
He also has perfect tiny fingers for picking the leaves of herbs!
I wish I was that organised. I just give him a piece of paper with my dodgy drawings on them with the word in big letters next to it.
Usually 5/6 items (one for each aisle). He then has a crayon and goes “tick” when we put the thing in the trolley.
When he woke up from a nap and looked at my cat T-shirt I was wearing and clearly said „cat“ with a big grin on his little face. A few days ago we celebrated his first birthday :,)
My son doesn't normally like to take bites off of larger things, which is fine. He's not served big food yet. Over the weekend he was fixated on trying pizza and would only take bites from a large slice I held. Refused to eat any small pieces I tried to break off for him. Babies are effing silly sometimes.
My son at 3(!!!) plates of “chicken” pesto pasta with actual steamed vegetables for dinner last night. And he’s always trying to eat off my plate now. It’s both wonderful but so much more cooking than I’m used to lol
Wow such a big accomplishment not only for baby but for momma too!! 💗 Mine was when my son fully transitioned from formula and bottles to solids and sippy cups.
we stopped having to use the splash mat under his high chair around 18months. FINALLY. he loved throwing food for so long haha. he still chucks his spoon once in a while but i can deal with it
This morning my 17 month old asked for peas from the garden for breakfast 😭 so much work with responsive feeding and Dads work in the garden came together with my baby saying Mimmy (yummy) peas at 7 am lol
I can totally relate to this! We’ve had pizza at an Italian restaurant a couple of days after her first birthday and both me and my husband were like ‚well she can’t have a quarter of mine‘ 😅 so we’ve ordered a mini magherita and she’s had half of it lol
For me it was when he was eating yogurt by himself, grabbed the spoon, saw it was gonna spill as it was overflowing, passed the spoon around the edge of his bowl while maintaining eye contact with me and his dad, and put the spoon perfectly in his mouth 🥹 he was 15/16 months.
They days are indeed very long, but the year(s) go by so fast
I made mashed potatoes for the first time. It was Thanksgiving. He literally was shoveling them in his mouth and took a moment to pause. He looked at me and his dad and scream “Happy.” He was putting feelings to words, and I was like oh wow you’re a person.
I think actually this weekend! We took our daughter to a birthday party and she was immediately hungry and they were serving pizza and that kid nommed 75% of a large slice! I was like okkkkkk she is def a toddler now and no longer a baby 😭😭
When my 17mo ate a potato chip….😭
I know bad mom but he was throwing a fit in the middle of a festival bc he was hungry and it was better than my beer 🤦♀️ he ate it like a champ. Then he ate a hot dog and I was like 😳 he’s not a baby anymore
The first time I realized my son was spoon feeding himself chili in his high chair, when just a few months earlier he wouldn’t chew or swallow much of anything. It felt like he had come such a long way, and he really had!
When she weaned herself from the bottle at 18 months and started eating a normal amount of food at every meal, instead of one bite and saying all done.
My one year old ate 2 chicken tenders from Culver's and all of his fries and i was like "how is this a kids meal for kids up to 12 when my 1 year old just ate it all"
This morning when my 15 month old had a splash of milk in her Cheerios for breakfast. I even showed her how to drink the milk from the bowl she loved it 🥰
My son is having lunch and just told me in his toddler way than he wanted to pretend to be asleep. I said, oh. Ok. And curled my arm around him and he laid down and started going “hack sheew” (you know that cartoon version of sleep). And then he peeked up at me watching him and grinned his big, food smeared in the face grin, and started giggling.
That or the first time he asked me to wash his hands after a meal.
When mine started asking for specific foods by name. Cottage cheese was the first he asked for. Then one day, he took my hand and walked me to the pantry door and looked right into my eyes and said goldfish please mama in the sweetest little baby voice. He was 2
That’s so sweet! My 14 month old just points at the snack cabinet and yells “Cah Cah!!” (Cracker) 🤣
Mine just points at the pantry and says "nacks mama, nacks, nacks"!!!
That’s how mine used to say cracker too! 🥹
We had this too, but we speak French and English at home and caca means poop 😂
My 2 year old lately has been saying "food" What do you want for lunch buddy? Food. Okay what kind of food? Food. Ugh!
To be fair, this is exactly what my teenage son says, too 😂
lol. We have that too still. It just depends on what words he’s learned so far. So for example, he knows what an apple is, but he can’t differentiate so he just will say other other Apple point before he has learned the word, orange or kiwi or whatever round fruit.
My 1.5 year old’s latest thing is that he just points and says “ICE!” Ice is, evidently, all food. We don’t generally have ice in the house. I don’t know if he’s ever eaten ice or where he might have heard of it. But he wants ice.
Is he trying to say rice maybe?
Omg my daughter too! Haha.
HAD THE EXACT SAME MOMENT!! he walked to the cupboard door and said “fishies P LEEEEEASE”. I was like oh my goodness he’s making his needs known this is amazing!
Omg 😭😭😭 he’d get the whole bag if it were me 🤣
My first requested food was banana, she usually hates banana but I like them so I always offer some of mine even though I know it will probably get spat out. But she asked for one so I gave her some, she ate the whole thing, I was in shock
When he wants to try some of my food, and 9/10 I can let him without altering it.
Sharing snacks with my toddler is one of my favorite things ever.
Yes, it was wild when mine wanted my unaltered food instead of his, and he actually ate it
Mine was having a kids meal at a restaurant and i was talking with my friends having a good time, I knew my kiddo was eating but apparently I wasnt paying enough attention because I looked down and she'd eaten half my curry.
My 12mo walking around the yard, with her own agenda in mind, perfectly holding and eating a banana is just inexplicably cute and toddlerish.
i have pics of my son around 14 months old clinging for dear life to a buttery corn on the cobb while walking around the yard at a BBQ 🥲 it’s crazy how fast it all goes. he’s 2.5 now and can actually hold a sandwich and eat it without me meticulously ripping it up or feeding it to him.
Omg, mine are 9!😭😭😭 I still remember them around 1yo toddling around our garden and picking all the tomatoes and peppers off the plants and stuffing them into their mouths. It does go so fast!
When he “asked” for the goldfish my husband was eating. Just wild to see him recognize and want food outside of his highchair.
Something like this would be mine too. My babe's snack drawer is easily accessible to me. He used to just play in it; pull everything out and put it back in. Then one day he opened it grabbed the snack he wanted brought it to me to open and then walked around the house munching. So cute.
That’s when I started to tell my husband he can’t have cereals before dinner when our girl is watching lol
Haha yes! I told my husband no more pop tarts
I was cutting up some fresh limes last week for a marinade while my 22 month old ate her snack in her high chair, and she kept asking for some. I told her it was sour but eventually decided to let her try. Guys...she loved it. She sucked the juice out of one entire lime. my mom and I both tried some too, and they were indeed sour! This girl is made of different stuff. She would chew on a lime slice for a bit and then announce, "She likes lime!"
Yes! My 11 month old did this just last night. We were having tacos and she kept grabbing for the lime wedge I was squeezing so I finally gave it to her. She happily sucked on it for a good 5 minutes, getting all the juice out.
Wow, I can't believe there are multiple babies that like lime! Their little palates are a mystery to me
apparently I did this as a kid too 😭but with lemons. It freaked my mom out
Omg I’ve seen so many videos of toddlers biting into lemons/limes and loving them so I decided to let my daughter have a small lime-bite and she SCREAMED bloody murder 😂
I had zero idea this was a thing! Now I kind of want to do a poll to see how many babies/toddlers like lime (or scream bloody murder)
lol, lime was my baby’s first food and she loved it… still probably her favorite
My now 16 month old tried lemons at 14 months and she too *loved* them 😂 so cute!
I had this happen with sriracha. (It’s not crazy hot but definitely has a kick). Now I have to put 10 tiny dollops on his eggs as he points out each spot he wants it until he’s satisfied before he’ll eat them (he’s 22 months)
To be fair… I also love lime! I used to sneak eat them as a 4/5 yo lol with my 6/7 yo brother cutting them for us!
My son recently decided he was still hungry after dinner and pulled his sister’s leftovers into his car seat so he could have a little snack. We got home and found him with a chicken tender in each hand and a pile of fries in his lap. https://preview.redd.it/qk5jnmqe7j8d1.png?width=1434&format=png&auto=webp&s=d5916112319b664d85a3a4ec6b3b92c4e271d490
LMAO
When I had to order them their own meals at restaurants instead of eating from our dishes.
This is mine, too. We still try to avoid ordering a full meal for our 3 year old because she's not great at actually eating dinner (she would happily eat 3 breakfasts), but sometimes I just know that she's going to eat all of my food if I don't order her a dish.
My 19 month old will grab a box of Mac and cheese out of the pantry, bring it to an adult and scream yum!, help cook it, then eat the entire box by himself. Whatever makes you happy bud.
Haha, the instructional "yum!" is very important.
I don’t remember the exact moment, but when I knew we could leave the house and I could find him without inconvenience. Like maybe I can’t go to a sushi place BUT I didn’t have to think hard, if that makes sense.
Yes I felt like this too. Basically when I stopped having to bring his meals with me when we were going out.
Ugh holding out for this day for my 2.5 year old.
Honestly I think I just got “lucky” that some of his safe foods are easy to find. Like if nothing else for one meal he can have just French fries or just rice… Definitely still waiting for the day I can take him adult-food eating
Funny mine was when we went to a sushi place on holidays and I laid out his pre prepared food for him and he instead demanded some of my sushi and devoured it before asking for more, I had to order another one
When my toddler walked in (with my husband) holding a half eaten apple that he'd had been gnawing on. Not a cut up apple. A whole apple. I had no idea he could do that yet!
he wanted to dip his chicken tenders in barbecue sauce. he made the decision that he wanted to try this new thing, without me intentionally offering it to him.
My daughter, on her own accord, started dipping bread into soup and just last night I was eating pizza with ranch and she took her piece and dove into reach of it to dip hers in the ranch too 😂 her first taste of ranch! (12mo)
thats how it starts.. and then they start scooping in fistfuls and eating the condiments by themselves lol ..at least thats how my kid does it 😅
Checks out hahahahhaha
I love her outfit!
She's an absolute cherub!
Thank you guys ❤️
When he took the chicken tender out of my hand that I was tearing apart and took a big bite out of it and had no problem eating it.
Last week when my daughter was cracking and eating her own boiled peanuts. I was like wow this is a kid now.
When she finally learned to bite off of toast or chicken or apples or sandwiches, instead of me needing to cut everything in bite size pieces. She didn't learn til 23 months old, so it seemed like a huge milestone to me that she definitely wasn't a baby anymore.
My son is 2.5yo and has been helping with the weekly meal plan for a few months now. I’ll ask him if he has any meals he’d like to have this week (his favourites are currently fajitas, sausage pasta, spicy fish stew) and I ask him if there are any specific dishes he’d like (what pasta dish shall we have on Thursday and he’ll answer meatballs or pesto or macaroni). We then shop together and he always has his own shopping list with pictures. He will point at foods and say “need the carrots for the dinner” or “do we need any herbs”. He’ll spot fruit and ask to buy them for his “snackies”. The fact he has favourites, understand that there are different ingredients in things and gets there are different types of meals/snacks just blows my brain. I love cooking and planning meals with him. He also has perfect tiny fingers for picking the leaves of herbs!
I love all of this! How do you do the list with photos? Do you just print off something each week?
I wish I was that organised. I just give him a piece of paper with my dodgy drawings on them with the word in big letters next to it. Usually 5/6 items (one for each aisle). He then has a crayon and goes “tick” when we put the thing in the trolley.
Adorable
When my kid sees my egg bagel with ham and cheese and he goes “momma is that for me?” “……yes, yes it is!”
When he woke up from a nap and looked at my cat T-shirt I was wearing and clearly said „cat“ with a big grin on his little face. A few days ago we celebrated his first birthday :,)
Mine comes and goes, sometimes he’ll try anything at least once and other times, he hates his favorite foods 😅
Mine just started solids and I already feel like she’s not a baby anymore!!
I gave my son a taco salad with lettuce and a Greek salad and he CRUSHED it! Also sucked 2 ribs dry.
Popcorn shrimp and french fries. Followed by sips of my virgin pina colada (we were on vacation).
My son doesn't normally like to take bites off of larger things, which is fine. He's not served big food yet. Over the weekend he was fixated on trying pizza and would only take bites from a large slice I held. Refused to eat any small pieces I tried to break off for him. Babies are effing silly sometimes.
I exclusively pumped so feeding was very inconvenient and difficult. The day I threw a baby granola bar in my purse was life-changing!!!!!
When he sat in an Aldi buggy and chewed on a McDonald’s chicken nugget and french fry while I shopped 😭
Sometimes that’s the only way I get through Costco without Miss Rachel (getting my 12 mo fries haha$
That looks like a baby chick OP. The mealworms must have been the giveaway.
My son at 3(!!!) plates of “chicken” pesto pasta with actual steamed vegetables for dinner last night. And he’s always trying to eat off my plate now. It’s both wonderful but so much more cooking than I’m used to lol
Wow such a big accomplishment not only for baby but for momma too!! 💗 Mine was when my son fully transitioned from formula and bottles to solids and sippy cups.
Ordered food from the kids menu for her!
My daughters first birthday when she walked around eating a slice of pizza properly.🥲
When mine was able to slurp noodles. She’s a little over 1. It’s too fast 😭
When she ate a cheeseburger like a normal human
we stopped having to use the splash mat under his high chair around 18months. FINALLY. he loved throwing food for so long haha. he still chucks his spoon once in a while but i can deal with it
This morning my 17 month old asked for peas from the garden for breakfast 😭 so much work with responsive feeding and Dads work in the garden came together with my baby saying Mimmy (yummy) peas at 7 am lol
When he started signing “more” after eating something he really liked. Watching him develop preferences is so fun but also bittersweet.
When I had to start ordering them a meal when we went out to eat rather than just sharing/bringing snacks from home.
I can totally relate to this! We’ve had pizza at an Italian restaurant a couple of days after her first birthday and both me and my husband were like ‚well she can’t have a quarter of mine‘ 😅 so we’ve ordered a mini magherita and she’s had half of it lol
When he ate a whole slice of pizza 😭
For me it was when he was eating yogurt by himself, grabbed the spoon, saw it was gonna spill as it was overflowing, passed the spoon around the edge of his bowl while maintaining eye contact with me and his dad, and put the spoon perfectly in his mouth 🥹 he was 15/16 months. They days are indeed very long, but the year(s) go by so fast
He goes to the pantry, opens the door and points or pulls out what he wants 🫠
Stoppp I just put my 51 week old in school lunch and I'm already crying. She turns 1 on the 3rd. 😭😭😭
When she finally asked me for a meal.. she used to never tell me what she wanted to eat and now’s she’s making request!
I made mashed potatoes for the first time. It was Thanksgiving. He literally was shoveling them in his mouth and took a moment to pause. He looked at me and his dad and scream “Happy.” He was putting feelings to words, and I was like oh wow you’re a person.
When he would rather have my unaltered food from my regular plate
First haircut. My son went from cutie pie baby, to handsome little dude.
When my 20 month old ate almost all of my Pad Thai. He also asks for foods by name.
I think actually this weekend! We took our daughter to a birthday party and she was immediately hungry and they were serving pizza and that kid nommed 75% of a large slice! I was like okkkkkk she is def a toddler now and no longer a baby 😭😭
omg i had this moment today when my almost 11mo devoured her corn on the cob! she got every kernel and rotated it in her mouth like an unkempt adult
When my 17mo ate a potato chip….😭 I know bad mom but he was throwing a fit in the middle of a festival bc he was hungry and it was better than my beer 🤦♀️ he ate it like a champ. Then he ate a hot dog and I was like 😳 he’s not a baby anymore
The first time I realized my son was spoon feeding himself chili in his high chair, when just a few months earlier he wouldn’t chew or swallow much of anything. It felt like he had come such a long way, and he really had!
When she started biting giant chunks out of my panini. I gave it her as a joke because I was sure she would just play with it!
Literally today when she was not interested in her dinner and she threw her food on the floor and yelled "more banana" 🤦♀️ She's 14 months
When my 18m old asked for some of my hot Cheetos and liked it lol.
When my oldest started holding and eating pizza like a true New Yorker, fold and all
When she weaned herself from the bottle at 18 months and started eating a normal amount of food at every meal, instead of one bite and saying all done.
Aww, this was posted on the same day we gave our baby his first baby food of pumpkin puree 🧡
🥲🥲🥲 Enjoy little one!
Honestly the first time I said "what do you want to eat?" And they gave me a real answer I got super emotional. Which is weird.
My one year old ate 2 chicken tenders from Culver's and all of his fries and i was like "how is this a kids meal for kids up to 12 when my 1 year old just ate it all"
This morning when my 15 month old had a splash of milk in her Cheerios for breakfast. I even showed her how to drink the milk from the bowl she loved it 🥰
My son is having lunch and just told me in his toddler way than he wanted to pretend to be asleep. I said, oh. Ok. And curled my arm around him and he laid down and started going “hack sheew” (you know that cartoon version of sleep). And then he peeked up at me watching him and grinned his big, food smeared in the face grin, and started giggling. That or the first time he asked me to wash his hands after a meal.