A tale of Two Plates

Here are two plates, at an equal distance in time from when they were put on the table. Baby has finished, Captain Fussy, well, thats the one on the left.
On the menu tonight, chicken pie filling with puff pastry squares. The upside of the puff pastry squares is that we have puff pastry to offset any objections to the veggies in the filling. The downside is that we have puff pastry, all over the table, the chairs, the floor, the children, etc.
So, two plates delivered, with one small baby fork per plate.
Mistakes:
- sitting down with adult sized fork in front of baby, who immediately needed a bigger fork too.
- giving a teaspoon to Captain Fussy (at his request) to eat the filling with, in front of the baby, who immediately needed a teaspoon too.
- assuming the baby could eat mouthfuls of puff pastry holding it in his hand, like I was (he did try, that was the problem)
- not cutting the puff pastry in to small enough squares for the baby
- putting puff pastry on other side of plate, so baby reaches across the pie filling, and rests arm in pie filling to get better leverage to pick up puff pastry. By now, he is also fumbling with three eating implements and a cup of milk as well.
Other happenings - baby gets pie filling on hands trying to shovel it onto fork/spoon, and from eating it with his hands (too slow with teaspoon/fork). Then baby tries to wipe puff pastry crumbs off his lap and off the chair he is sitting on. Luckily tonight he didn't choose to enthusiastically rub his hair and face as well.

In the meantime, Captain Fussy was eating one pea at a time, with dainty bites out of his puff pastry, while simultaneously developing such a ravening thirst that he needed a drink straight away. He finally finished a satisfactory portion (about 2/3?) approx an hour after sitting down to the meal, after some serious threats re breakfast menus were made, and a time limit put on the finishing.