Nope, won't use a spoon. They've never given him a chance to try. I gave him a plastic spork with his pasta today, which amused him for about 30 seconds, but he never makes any attempt to actually use a spoon; doesn't even try to grab the spoon when I'm feeding him yogurt or something.

He ended up going to naptime hungry, wailed for a while, but did sleep for about 2 hours, so I'm really at a crossroads. I either put up with the noise at the beginning of naptime, knowing that eventually he'll probably sleep, or I just give in and feed him the stuff. For now, technically I can, since I only have him and my own 16-month-old who eats everything and doesn't need any help, during the day. I'm advertising to fill spots, however, and if I end up with one or 2 more little ones, then I really won't have the time to be feeding him. It was one thing when I had 3 1-year-olds all on baby food, it was just an assembly line, but now that he's the only one on baby food and is making no attempt to get off of it it's becoming a problem.

I really want to keep at it, and not give him any, in the hopes that he will eventually eat. I worry about his nutrition though, eating essentially nothing except cheerios and crackers here all day, and then going home to have a couple bites of pablum and some baby food, which is all he eats at dinner. It's just not enough. He's on milk now too, not formula, which would at least give him the nutrition he's missing. With the parents not on board it could take weeks at least, he's an incredibly stubborn little guy, and I don't want him to suffer nutritionally for weeks on end.