We gave Jonah a few Cheerios on his tray to see what would happen. There was quite a learning curve on both ends:
Jonah: slapping your already messy-with-carrots hands at the Cheerios will make them stick!
(It turned into a game of seeing how many O's he could grab at the same time.)
Mommy: give Jonah only a couple O's at a time
(Once Jonah could get all the Cheerios from the tray into his fists, the next stage of his game was to put them in his mouth, like he would any new object.)
Jonah: getting O's from a tightly-clenched fist into my mouth is tough... Try a pincher technique
(The first couple successes were particularly interesting to watch. Jonah would gum them with an exaggerated open-mouthed chew and puzzled expression.)
Over the course of a week, Jonah went from playing with his O's to very deliberatly and reliably feeding himself a couple dozen O's, one at a time, with a perfected pincher-grasp.
