Just a short demonstration of why meal time with Noa can take a long long time. This video is one minute long, and as you will see, includes just two bites of food. She does better than this at school - and does better than this with pretty much everybody except me. She and I are just really having a Mommy-Noa struggle with meal time these days. When she bends her fingers back and says "stretch stretch" she is asking for her gloves and finger toys (which means putting on both gloves and a finger toy on each finger - before she will take a bite). So I'm trying to move toward doing the bite first and then getting the toys as a reward... slowly building up to two or three bites, but as you can see even getting one is a bit of routine at this point. She is very polite in this video, but we've had other incidents that include her hitting herself in the face, thrashing around on her chair and screaming as if someone set her on fire. Gosh, I'm sorry you all won't get to see that (not).
And as you can also see at the end of the video - she totally knows when she finally does the bite that it's good thing worth celebrating. So hopefully we can keep building on that. Just another meal in the life of... The Land of Noa.
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