'Poon

Nevin absolutely must have a spoon to eat anything. Doesn't matter if it's edible with a spoon or if it needs a spoon. He has to have one. Usually he just holds on to it while he eats. If given food, he will walk to the drawer in the kitchen and stand there...waiting for a spoon.

Today, he's eating raisins. I'm pretty sure he would live on just raisins if I would let him. He can pick them out of anything (like today's blueberries). He will finish a bowl and demand more. He signs more and it means raisins. Loves raisins.

Trash

Nevin has learned to throw things away. This is a double edged sword because he's not all that selective about what gets thrown away. Sometimes I have to recover things - like my DS pen. Sometimes he's really helpful - like throwing away the trash from making boxes at the post office while I start paying. He's also sometimes decides he wants to play with something instead of throw it away so I can't give him anything really messy.

Tonight at dinner, he was throwing away trash for us. He threw away a bag. He came back for another bag. That one had something in it so it must be studied. He saw the cup the fries came in. He took that out, handed the trash off to his sister (who was helping him open the can) an walked to the drink machine. He wasn't all that happy when we took the cup back and threw it away...