{"id":579,"date":"2018-04-12T08:20:11","date_gmt":"2018-04-11T21:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/patmore.net.au\/food\/?p=579"},"modified":"2018-04-12T12:24:06","modified_gmt":"2018-04-12T01:24:06","slug":"trains-buses-and-eating-out-with-a-18-month-old-_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patmore.net.au\/food\/2018\/04\/trains-buses-and-eating-out-with-a-18-month-old-_\/","title":{"rendered":"Trains, buses and eating out with a 18 month old ^_^"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At 18 months old now, Alexander is a fantastic trooper when it comes to food. We won the lottery in that way!<\/p>\n<p>I often get told that Alex is awesome on outings in restaurants, etc. I was worried about getting out and about post baby, but my advice is to <strong>just give it a go<\/strong>. Alexander is now a seasoned traveller, and adores eating with us in a high chair or pram. He also loves buses and trains. No, I really mean <strong>LOVES<\/strong>. That and pretending to be a dogue like our two princess dogues :P<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_583\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/patmore.net.au\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/IMG_20180211_111425.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-583\" class=\"wp-image-583 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/patmore.net.au\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/IMG_20180211_111425-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/patmore.net.au\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/IMG_20180211_111425-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/patmore.net.au\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/IMG_20180211_111425-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-583\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The doooogggues :D<\/p><\/div>\n<p>As for independently feeding themselves? It&#8217;s going to be messy. But it&#8217;s worth persisting because it frees you up to do other things. Alex is great with finger food, and learning to use a spoon. Here&#8217;s a messy yogurt adventure outside on our new stenciled concrete out back :)<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_592\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/patmore.net.au\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Photo-on-12-04-2018-at-07.24-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-592\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-592\" src=\"https:\/\/patmore.net.au\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Photo-on-12-04-2018-at-07.24-2-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-592\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oh, hi there!&#8230; I&#8217;m totally NOT feeding Bonnie. :P<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_589\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/patmore.net.au\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Photo-on-9-10-2017-at-05.03-.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-589\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-589\" src=\"https:\/\/patmore.net.au\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Photo-on-9-10-2017-at-05.03--300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/patmore.net.au\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Photo-on-9-10-2017-at-05.03--300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/patmore.net.au\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Photo-on-9-10-2017-at-05.03-.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-589\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Misty-a-like for funsies :P<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Until next time, Mum cadet signing off xo :-)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At 18 months old now, Alexander is a fantastic trooper when it comes to food. We won the lottery in that way! I often get told that Alex is awesome on outings in restaurants, etc. I was worried about getting out and about post baby, but my advice is to just give it a go. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73,74,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baby-related","category-parenting-wins","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patmore.net.au\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/patmore.net.au\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/patmore.net.au\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patmore.net.au\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patmore.net.au\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=579"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/patmore.net.au\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":595,"href":"https:\/\/patmore.net.au\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579\/revisions\/595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patmore.net.au\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patmore.net.au\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patmore.net.au\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}