Jack Henry has recently discovered table food.  He has a pretty mighty gag reflex, so we’re taking it rather slowly.  Since the other two were in this stage, Gerber has marketed a wonderful starter food:  the puff.

The puff is truly genius.  It’s not too sweet, so you don’t have the guilt of letting your baby stuff himself with Fruit Loops or the like.  And then it disolves very quickly, so it’s virtually impossible to choke on them.  They also come in a wide variety of baby-friendly flavors, our favorite being sweet potato so far.

We’ve come up with a new function of the puffs though that I think the world should know about:  learning to count!  By accident, we discovered that if you lick the puffs they stick quite readily to the skin.  Observe….

We would never just randomly stick food to our baby’s face without a purpose, so we told him that was ONE.  One puff, Jack Henry.  There is ONE puff sticking to your forehead.

Let’s give him a second to grasp the concept…

Feel the one.  BE the one, Jack Henry!

Okay, now TWO….

Awww!  What a cute two!

Now THREE….

Uh-oh.  We have a problem with three.  Better move the whole operation…

There.  That’s better.  THREE…

I think he’s getting it!

I tell ya’, Sesame Street has nothing on us.  Now, if you’ll excuse me, I need to go over some algebraic functions with Bonny Annie using spaghetti and meatballs….