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Around 7 months he was raking in puffs to put into his mouth. No pincer grasp yet though and out boys are the same age.

Yesterday, I gave him sweet potato fries and apple slices and he was able to grab and put them into his mouth and gnaw on them.

@Mrs. Polish: yea they are small and he misses his mouth a lot and gets frustrated. What about trying mum mums?

I would try mum mums! My daughter did great with self-feeding when I gave her something large in her hand (like mum mums or large pieces of bread). The puffs might be too small?

7-8 months? He wasn't purposely getting food in his mouth though. It seemed like he was just grabbing and of the 5 or so items that he grabbed, maybe one would make it in.

@Mrs. Polish: R is the same way. She will sometimes pick up puffs or Cheerios but misses her mouth. I sent some Cheerios to day care today, so she gets more practice, then just on the weekends with us. We have Mum Mums and she wants to be feed....

mum mums worked better for us than puffs, but DS got some sort of skin reaction from the mum mum.

Around 8 months he developed his pincer grip and from then on preferred to feed himself. Before that he would hold small crackers, etc and would "eat" them.

7-8 months. Once he got his grip down, he understood the whole put it in your mouth and eat it. Right now at 13-14 months, he's slowly learning to self feed with a spoon. It equals yogurt everywhere!

we started offering table food at around 8.5 months. we never did mums or puffs. he would palm the food and shove it all over his face trying to get it in his mouth. cute, but not fun to clean

Around 9 months. She had the pincer grasp down earlier, but for whatever reason wouldn't put it in her mouth. One day it just clicked!

We started with the puffs probably around 7/8 or so months. She didn't REALLY start on table foods til about 12 months! But about a month later she has started eating lots of different foods, biting off pieces from a larger piece of food, and rejecting being spoon-fed altogether. All on her own, so I wouldn't worry about it. Never seen a five year old eat purees.