DD2 is 13mths, she has been self feeding finger food for a number of months now but I have been doing anything that needs a spoon eg. yogurt. She was walking around the house recently holding a spoon and cup pretending to feed herself very well so thought she is now capable to spoon feeding herself. So have let her go for it for the past week with yogurt. She does start using the spoon to the best of her ability but then decides it is quicker to shovel the yogurt in with her hand and occasionally will do the odd mouthful with her spoon. Just wondering if I should help her with the spoon to help her get the idea of the action needed or just let go for it hand or spoon and she will work out the spoon thing in her own time.

I'm handling the mess ok at the moment. I was trying to find long sleeve bibs that fit her (the elastic on the sleeves were all to big and the food just went down her arm but I have since bought a whole heap of cheap windcheaters that I am now using as bibs which is working a treated and much cheaper than the long sleeve bibs you can buy.