Happy self feeding

Joshua turns 1 in 2 days!! WOW!! I'm having a real hard time believing that my little baby is not so much a baby anymore!! It makes me a bit sad, yet excited at the same time because he is so much fun and it gets even better each day! Tonight we were out to dinner, and Joshua was eating relatively well, but lately he's gotten into the bad habit that he will spit out his food if he just doesn't want it. Instead of refusing it, he takes it, makes a face and pushes it back out with his tongue. Well, tonight as we were eating and I was feeding him he got a hold of a fork. He proceeded to grab it, properly I may add, and try to grab food from the plate that I was securing in front of him. As I watched, I thought I'll help him put something on the fork and then we'll see what he does!! What do you think he did?? Well, let me tell you. As I lead his little hand to stab a piece of chicken onto his for, he looked at me and grinned really big. Then he took that fork and directed it perfectly into his mouth, bit off the chicken and moved that fork back onto his plate!! Yep, he is self feeding--with just a tiny bit of help getting food onto his fork--but he's doing it alone and enjoying every second of his independence. Just another way to show that he's growing up TOO fast!! I love my little guy!