Eating is fun! 吃飯樂無窮!

I just found these pictures taken last November and thought that Virginia was so cute in them, so I wanted to put them on here. Since she was just a little bit over 1 years old, we noticed she was really anxious to eat on her own so we let her do so. She really enjoyed eating everything at first, but eventually came to dislike green and red food, which is not good at all!!!:) She does like any kind of fruit though. We also noticed that she likes any soy bean product such as tofu, dougan (soy bean curd, it's like hard tofu in a way..mom, the stuff you like) and fucu (dried bean curd). One time a friend asked me how my Virginia could learn how to eat by herself at such young age (oh well, I don't really know how old a child usually eats on his/her own in average though). I told her, I found it's helpful to help a child to be more independent to try to trust and have faith in them, and allow them to try things without stopping them just because it might cause a mess (ohhh yeah) or bring inconvenience. I might sound like I know something about this stage of like, but the real truth is, I just let her do the things she was interested and in turn I could get a break! :D

我不久前找到了這些去年十一月左右拍的相片, 裡面的藹伶很可愛地在吃東西。她差不多一歲多一點時我們發現她很想要自己吃東西, 於是就讓她嘗試。她真的很喜歡吃東西但我們也發現她漸漸地不喜歡吃綠色和紅色的食物, 這樣真的很不好, 不過她倒是很喜歡水果,我們也發現她挺喜歡吃豆製類的食物, 像是豆腐, 豆干及腐竹。有一次朋友問我藹伶怎麼這麼小就可以自己吃東西,(老實說我也不知一般小孩何時開始自己吃東西),我想了一下然後跟她說, 我覺得若我們試著信任孩子, 相信他們做得到, 並且讓他們嘗試新的事物而不要因可能造成的混亂及不便而阻止他們,如此有助於幫助孩子學習變得更加獨立。在這點上我可能聽起來好像有點智慧, 但另一部份的事實是我只是讓她做她有興趣的事, 以此來換取我的輕鬆! :D

"I don't think I like this "so called" Veggie that much!"
'我想我不喜歡這個叫作蔬菜的東西!"


"Noodles are yummy!"
"麵麵好吃'


"Time to dig in"
"開動啦!"


"I want to cry, it's so delicious!"
'實在太好吃了,感動地想哭哩!"


"I can't waste even a little bit of food" (that is one odd look)
'這一小點麵我也是不會錯過的'


"All gone??"
"沒啦??"


"I want more!!!!"
"哇哇~~我還要啦!!"