18 Months

Frowning, shaking your head so vigorously "no?" And silently evicting with your tongue each shred of the food I just fed you?

Surely one or the other alone is sufficient to tell me you're done eating.

In six months from now I won't remember this meal-ending stunt of yours at all, unless I read this post. You'll have grown out of it. Someday soon enough you'll demurely say, "No thank you, I'm full." Which will be easier to clean up after. But, today, I offer the parent's silent prayer: "When you take this from her, give her something that delights me as much."