Dinner is hit and miss. Most days it doesn’t get eaten at all. And for some reason, I still persist in my refusal for Riley to substitute dinner with eating peanut butter from the jar with a spoon. Go figure. But avocado is still a favourite. It was her first food and her enthusiasm for hasn’t really wavered ever since.

She loves helping me cook and mix. So yesterday, I popped her up on the bench and she helped me make guacamole. She mashed away while chanting ‘helping!’, ‘I did it!’ and then turned her nose up at my offer of avocado on toast, opting instead just to eat the avocado on its own.

I think I could be on to a winner with her helping to make her own dinner. Because it all got eaten. Either that, or it was a fluke. It was pretty fun. I’ll probably keep doing it anyway, fluke or no fluke.