[oom: Settling.]The battle of baby vs high chair has been fought. The high chair won, and having realised that he is truly strapped in for good, Alexander awaits dinner.
Once again, Guppy approaches him with a bowl of mushy stuff. And once again, it is refused.
Guppy sighs.
"Come on Alex, I know you can eat soft solids, because the other day you ate a mouthful of cat food when I wasn't looking."
Beat.
"Okay, how about one spoon full for Daddy, one for Alex." he says, taking a spoonfull of baby rice and eating it. "Mmm, yummy yummy yum."
He manages not to spit it out, wipes the spoon, and tries feeding Alex again. This time there is success.
"All right! Well done!" Guppy says encouragingly, trying to feed him a second spoonful when he's swallowed it. No luck. Looks like they're going to have to go for the same again.
"Okay, one spoon full for Daddy..." He says, sighing and taking another spoonful.
Involuntarily, he pulls a face. This stuff is revolting.