Ernie's Endorsement of Recent Weeks: Food! More food!

We already told you how much he loves solids now, and he's up to three meals a day and starting on a few finger foods as well. At mealtime, he constantly kicks in his highchair grunting at us as we shovel the spoon in his mouth as fast as we can. He sounds like a voracious zombie requesting "braaaaaaaains" when he's hungry.
He's more polite with anyone other than Mom and Dad, so we let others feed him as often as they like. Grandpa Denie had a good time while Grandma Bonnie watched:

And he LOVES apples. We cut up a few and put them in his mesh feeder (basically a nylon bag so he can safely gum solids). When Dad finally took a mushy mesh feeder away from Ernie once, the poor dear cried.
And he loves sharing apples with others as well. He gets pretty impatient since we all have to chew them and he just sucks on the juice. Laura got to enjoy this experience when she visited in mid-October.

And this is what he did one recent morning BEFORE we added breakfast to his repast schedule: