Training Pays Off

This Thanksgiving our nephew, his wife and their two boys visited us for the weekend. The first night they were here, we sat down for dinner. All of us were at the dining room table, eating dinner, and the adults were talking and visiting. Suddenly I realized that Caleb who is 15 months old was feeding Rudy pieces of cereal from his tray. Caleb would pick up an individual piece of dry cereal and feed it to Rudy. I was not happy that Rudy was eating from the table, but I was delighted that all the time we spent teaching Rudy to eat gently from our fingers was paying off. Rudy would put his huge mouth up to Caleb's fingers and gently eat one piece of cereal from his tiny fingers. Thank heavens for lessons learned.