Will’s guide to eating lunch

1. Decide what food preference is for the day. While anything is game, current preferences should definitely be different than yesterday’s.

2. Choose one food (for example, peas). Put as many as you can in your mouth, chewing steadily, but don’t swallow. Watch Mommy and Daddy get very excited and put more in front of you. Continue to fill your mouth.

3. If something else more interesting should be placed on your high chair while you are filling your mouth, feel free to spit out what you are chewing and fill your mouth with the other food.

4. Just as they are convinced you are eating, stick out your tongue and allow all your chewed food to fall into your lap. For the smaller pieces that don’t fall out, make raspberries with your lips to spray them across the room.

5. Watch as Mommy and Daddy put another food in front of you, for example bananas. Eat two pieces of banana. Then take the third and press it on your head. Be sure to smear it through your hair. Then lick the rest of the smashed banana off your hand. Try this method on your plate. For the rest of the meal, everything should be smashed.

6. Open your mouth as Mommy gives you pieces of peach. Make her happy by eating a few pieces. When she puts one in front of you, be sure to smear the juice all over your highchair with your hand. Remember to smash!

7. Try to stand up in the high chair. Clearing your highchair of all food will help you. Clear it well, getting all remaining pieces of food on the floor. Extra points if you can hit a cat.

8. Make grand gestures to show that you want exactly what Mommy and Daddy are eating. Then push it away with gusto when they attempt to share. Extra points if you can get them to give you their food, and then throw it on the floor.

9. Drink some of your milk. Shake it up until the flow regulator falls out of the top. Then pour milk from the spout on to your high chair. Try to soak your sleeves with milk. Then toss your milk at the cats.

10. Wait for Daddy to share his pudding with you. Eat up all of this neatly, it’s the good stuff.