Besides his communication, XX's appetite and diet is also growing in variety and quantity. It is not uncommon for XX to finish a slice of strawberry jam sandwich after his morning milk feed. He is growing increasingly curious about different food and also surprisingly more and more open to opening his mouth and trying out new food.
We will always ask him at the dinner table if he wants to try this or that. Mostly, he'll say yes to noodles stuff. So far, he still says 'no need' to rice. This boy also likes noodles, like his older brother. Sometimes, instead of porridge or baby cereal, I'll let him have noodles in soup or chow mien and he loves them! He's also trying out harder stuff like sausages and crunchy apples, cut into small pieces, though he'll sometimes spit out the fibre. Today, we offered him pizza and he took quite a few bites of it!
Here's a video of him trying to poke and eat sausages:
