Deliberate. She'll smoosh food up with her hands, and smear it on the tray, or she'll lift up her plate, and dump it on either the tray or the floor. I always give her either a spoon or fork, but I've never seen her use it. I feed her soups and yogurts.

I thew away all of my dishes with suction cups in favour of the stackable sets that took up less room in my cupboard, but I might have to invest in a new set for her. I have another DCG that is exactly the same age and does all this without effort, so I could just be forgetting what it's like since its's been about a year since I had someone this young.