How My Type-A Personality Affects Cora's Development

I know Mema and P-pa are going to wonder who this person is that is raising Cora.  I was a hugely messy child.  My room was always a wreck.  And, it never failed that whenever I got a chocolate ice cream cone, there was always at least one drip on my shirt.  Somewhere around college, the neat switch in my brain flipped and suddenly, I am all about the cleanliness factor.  (Although, I do believe I successfully ate chocolate ice cream cones way before then!)

So, I was a little surprised to find out at Cora's 15 month appointment back in October that I should be working with her on using utensils to eat.  I was pretty gung-ho about it as we left the doctor's office and had great plans to have her fork trained by the end of the week. . .

As we quickly approach 2 years old (gasp! Where has the time gone?!), I suppose I need to actually start teaching her.  I just have a little trouble watching this.

It's a little messy!

When using the spoon gets too tedious. . .

She doesn't want to waste any of it.

It's been a little while since we've had yogurt.  Mommy needs to recover!