Baby Sandwiches... Bocaditos?

I give my 1 year old sandwiches. 

Am I a bad mom?

It's not that I'm lazy... it's just that she want's whatever we're having, and she wants to be the boss of her own food.  We were at the point where she wouldn't eat her own food, but then 30 minutes later she'd be standing on her tippy toes, eating my ham and cheese sandwich right out of my hand!

Enter the mini sandwich.
I slice a piece of bread in half the hard way - making 2 really thin slices. Then I cut it into a few smaller pieces.  So far she's had peanut butter and jelly and turkey and cheese.  Peanut butter and jelly sticks together, but also sticks all over her... whereas turkey and cheese is an open invitation to play with her food, she dismantles it and eats the pieces she wants, then throws the rest on the floor or tries to feed it to us!  Today we added in thinly sliced cucumbers and tomatoes, just to add to the variety of food thrown on the floor.

The hardest part about the whole thing... is not eating her mini sandwich myself.  Those little bite size pieces are so tempting!

Gaviota, gaviota

Here's a story about what happened to me and my sandwich this past weekend:

Mmm, Sandwich!

 

Just Chillin, taking it all in.

And here we go!

Ugh!  I think I just got attacked with a beach umbrella!

Oh my god no, it's alive!  And it wants my SANDWICH!

This is ridiculous!

Go away you jerk! It's my sandwich!

oh MAAAAN!

That's when family stepped in, while I ran screaming toward the seaweed infested waters to cleanse my hair of seagull cooties.  Then, since I was still hungry, I ripped off portions of my sandwich highly likely to contain seagull cooties, and proceed to eat the remainder of my sandwich under protection of an umbrella and family guard, because this was no normal seagull.  It was ENORMOUS, and when husband threw a sandal at it, it barely flinched.  No fear.  I think I finally met someone who wants cookies more than I do!