25 cent lunch

So we all know of the battle we've had with Landon's eating habits.  We've been working with him to eat more for a couple years now in order to get him to where he has less and less nutrition going through his g-button.  The g-button feedings are almost down to half and half of water and his formula.  He's been doing great gaining weight, and I feel like he's eating close to the amount that any three year old would eat.

Since we have been concentrating more on getting food in his belly, we never really cared if we were feeding him the food.  We just wanted him to eat!  So now we're at the stage where Landon is eating well enough that we need to start really pushing him to eat by himself.  Plus, with baby sister coming, it (of course) would just make things a little easier.  We've shown him how to use a spoon and fork for several months now, but he only had interest for a few bites and then he was over it.  We used LOTS of encouragement, but some days were just better than others.  All in all, I think he's lazy about it cause we've allowed him to be that way.  But we are learning from our mistakes. :)

Landon is really into yogurt (which he calls "baby yogurt" because there is a baby on the package).  We started him out eating that by himself and he did great with it cause he loved it so much.  He would eat half the  cup of yogurt before we would have to take over.  We haven't had much luck finding anything else that he was super interested in where he would feed himself like that....until today.

Apparently, my son LOVES Ramen noodles!  Who would've thunk it??  I know it's probably not the best meal to be feeding him, but hopefully it's a stepping stone.  And we aren't feeding it to him every meal either...he's not in college yet! :)