My daughter is one year old now. One thing I've discovered is babies are weird. This isn't a bad thing. In fact, I can find no end of amusement just watching her do things some times.
For the past few months we've been putting a folded table cloth under her chair, as she has a habit of throwing food she doesn't want off of her tray. This is nothing new. Although, she has developed two quircks:
1) It is important to feed her things of ascending favor. If you feed her her favorite food first, she will refuse to eat anything after that. So, not only do we give her stuff she's neutral to first, we actually hide better things from her at that time. If she see it, she'll start chucking stuff.
2) Lately, she's been having appetite issues, and will get cranky and stop eating for no obvious reason. This means she's offen genuinely hungry when we take her out of her tray. She will then proceed to eat the same food she previously rejected off of the floor. Priceless.
As a bonus, if you have cats, you can add a new interesting dynamic! One of our cats loves most people-food. She'll eat about anything other than raw fruit thrown on the floor. So one of our cats has learned our daughter is a delightful source of table scraps. This comes at a risk, however. While there's a 90% chance that a table scrap is hitting the floor, there's also a 10% chance that a hard plastic up filled with liquid is hitting the floor. So it goes something like this:
"Oh boy! Pizza crust!"
*thud*
"What the fuck? Where'd that come from?"
Priceless. Having kids is very entertanining.