Food hats

I'm not a great one for mess.

There, I've said it! It's something I didn't know about myself before we started baby led weaning. I thought I was quite relaxed about things getting mucky and was well aware that weaning of any kind would involve the smearing of food in places that it shouldn't be smeared.

But then my darling baby reached out a tomato pasta-covered hand to my bare arm (not even a white sleeve there to justify this) and I flinched!! I was really surprised! But it turns out I really don't like getting messy!

So, after 9months of weaning I'm pretty much ok with the bits that go to the floor, and I'm fine with sweeping out the highchair, and I've even come to terms with a yoghurt covered face, hands and arms (as long as they aren't mine, that is!). But, as if sensing that new levels of mess were required now, Bean has started decorating her hair. :-)

First we had this, carefully balanced pieces of food. I was actually quite impressed and, perhaps mistakenly, clapped and laughed. Because next we had this:

 

Yep, that is indeed tomato sauce matted into her lovely blonde hair! Fortunately she doesn't have much hair (can you imagine if she did?! Aaaaaaarrrrrgggghhhhhhhhh!).

 

So how on earth did this come to be, I hear you ask? Or perhaps this isn't that odd an occurrence in your house either! For us, it came about because my Other Half played hide-the-toy with her, and he hid it by putting it behind his head and dropping it down his t-shirt.

 

A very funny game, yes? And when cranberries and raisins drop out of her vest everytime we undress her it is pretty amusing. As it also is when Bean tries to fit a book down there. :-D But then she did this one mealtime and we realised things were about to get very messy:

 

 

Hmm, think I'll be playing the "I made the meal so OH can do the tidying up" card now!