Spoons are for smearing

We bought him his own spoon a month or two back. Just in the last couple of weeks he's been really interested in holding it while we feed him, and even more recently, he seems to want to get in on the act. He's tried scooping out of the bowl with his spoon, with predictably limited degrees of success. This weekend I started handing him the spoon with a little bit of food on it. This explains why he has dried mango crusted in his nostrils and eyelashes.