I could hve written your post word for word, babyno1!

We have found that Claire is not keen on having food from a spoon. She much prefers to be in control, so we give her finger food now nd she does seem to eat more of it than mush/puree. She does the same thing as your little man does with food on a spoon. On the odd occassion that the food actully gets in her mouth, it comes straight back out again. Maybe you could try letting him be in control byt giving him more finger foods? We bought this mesh feeder thing in Coles and we put fruit peices in it and she sucks on it and demolishes the fruit.