New adventures in eating

Ben is increasingly interested in eating with a spoon. For a week he wanted cheerios and milk for breakfast and ate it with a spoon. (He generally doesn't eat much breakfast, and what he's willing to eat then changes constantly.) He also eats other things with a spoon, although often the spoon goes a little too vertical and the food slips off. He also sometimes just uses the spoon as an intermediate tool, such as with ice cream, which he usually scoops up with a spoon, but often eats by taking the ice cream off the spoon with his hand (ice cream is thus a particularly messy dish).