For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for October 06, 2020

gee, how can you tell?

Nope. Started the HOUSE on solids. Still working on getting some inside her.

Farley’s gonna be in Heaven for at least a few months. There’s nothing like floor cleanup duty around a kid learning to eat solid foods.

I remember sending my two black Labs outside during my boys’ meal times – they are one year apart so as toddlers both were messy eaters – and letting them back in for floor clean up. 3 times a day. Every night I’d mop the floor before bed. My granddaughter loves to throw food on the floor and my dogs come in after they were picked up and eat them.

I didn’t introduce solids until the baby was grabbing food off my plate and eating it. There’s no real need to push a baby to go on solids if s/he is getting proper nutrition from breastmilk or formula. This idea was given to me by a good doctor (paediatric allergist).

So your not going to clean up? Are the plants that more important?

This is when dog’s contribution to the household activates in high gear. In 10 minutes, the kitchen will be spotless – well except for the pureed peas.

No, that’s just the aftermath off a typical Patterfoob meal. They generally eat like debased pigs.

Grape juice vomit stain, the worst.

No other explanation necessary…

Across the room where Farley’s eating it? Kid’s got an arm! Sign her up.

Oddly, I received a video in my email today of my 6 month old granddaughter having her first bites of oatmeal. She’s still deciding if there’s a reason to eat it but hasn’t refused it.

I find this one today, a great example of a perfectly funny comic.

Somewhere I have a picture of my granddaughter sitting outside in her highchair after the first time she had spaghetti. She, the chair, her hair, everything was a complete mess. She had the biggest grin on her face. We just took the hose to the entire assembly, then took her inside to change her outfit.

Had to be funny with a toddler on food, most parent’s learn not to.

Ugh… my younger one had a yoyo stomach as a baby.

I hand fed my two for a long time to avoid this kind of mess.

I think this could be considered a “burn” from Connie.

Oh, look! She’s had her first fling…

World champion food thrower.

That’s a hilarious joke, especially the detail with Farley slurping up the leftovers and Elly watering the plants in the meantime…shows that by the time one has a third baby, it will all work out in the end…

With that expression on Elly’s face, I believe she is just trying to stay calm by watering her plants. She’ll clean up later.

When I started my son on solid foods, I had found a “server” that was a glorified baby bottle that you loaded with the pureed food in layers. The nipple had an extra large opening that the solid food would go through. He would start sucking on that nipple and not even realize he was getting solid food until the flavor changed in the next layer. The first couple of times were hilarious to watch his face. I used that for a couple of months before spoon feeding him and he was already used to the stuff so he never was messy about it.

Because the plants need water !

It’s a comic!

My son sneezed with a mouthful of strained beets and I had to repaint the wall… it wouldn’t come off.