I don't know that I would refer to feeding Sophie these days as "fun", but it sure can be entertaining, frustrating, exhausting, frustrating, educational, and oh yeah, frustrating.
There are 3 foods that I am guaranteed Sophie will eat each day. Cheese, yogurt and Kamut Puffs. Grilled cheese sandwiches are hit and miss. Sometimes the grilled cheese must be left whole, sometimes it has to be in small cubes. Sometimes it is obviously evil and not edible. Obviously. Until recently I was complaining that Sophie would only eat baby food veggies in the jars, regardless of how much I pureed fresh homemade ones. This insulted me a little. I mean, I am a damn fine cook! Now I wish I could get her to eat jarred veggies. She refuses. It isn't that she doesn't like them. She just won't try them. The only veggies she will eat these days are green beans. Loves em. For now. Tomorrow the wind might change and the green beans will fall victim to Sophie's disgusted toss over the side of the high chair.
Here are some things I have learned this week:
- Cheese must be nothing other than white. If it is orange, it clearly isn't cheese and will be discarded immediately.
- Sneaking other items into yogurt will not be tolerated. Nor will future yogurt be consumed.
- Mom's and Dad's sandwiches are a yummy treat, even when the same sandwich was rejected when offered in a cubed state.
- High chair = torture device
- A bib, while uncool to wear, is an excellent toy and is worthy of chewing for hours.
- Rejected yogurt and other mushables, have awesome splatter potential when projected by a toddler making "car noises".
I just have to remember that she won't be doing these things when she's 20....right?
Now, off to go to eat cold grilled cheese crusts.
-jl
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