DD2 is 10 months and she pretty much just consumed a whole bowl (heinz unbelievable bowl) of spaghetti and meatballs. Today she has also eaten half a large banana, about half a bowl of porridge with apple puree, slice bread with tuna, lettuce and cucumber, although she picks out the lettuce and tosses it from the highchair, and a vegemite milk arrowroot. Its only been in the last few weeks that she has actually started eating all that is put in front of her and not just playing with it. She was born a big girl but her weight has dropped from 97th percentile to 50th, which I don't personally think has any thing to do with how much she eats or drinks (still a booby monster with min 6 feeds a day), she has just gotten more active and I don't think genetically was prone to be big forever.

DD was not done by BLS, by this age she consumed 2 extra large jars equivalent a day plus a couple of snacks and by 1 it was 3+ jars. She was only ever 50th percentile and still is. She at a huuuggee amount for her age, but it didn't effect her weight. I think they are all just different, and will eat different amounts and it doesn't necessarily mean their weight will be different either, otherwise DD2 would have been the size of a house, I think its just genetically how they will grow as long as they are happy with the amount they are consuming and not getting aggravated by not enough.

One time I got into a debate over the quantity DD2 was eating and to prove fact to my mother, got an old baby food jar and shoved the vegetables DD was going to have for dinner into it, it well and truly filled it and she pretty much ate the whole lot. Sometimes I think because non-jarred food is harder to quantify then it appears to be less.

And DD2 loves playing with spoons and forks, I just give her one at every meal and let her experiment with it, usually it just stabs at things and eventually gets thrown but already she gets the concept. DD1 was well to 18months before she mastered a spoon.