Warning: this blog post is full of shit. Oliver has been eating everything lately. EVERYTHING. People actually ask me when he is eating, "is there anything this kid won't eat?" Only took him a good 10 months to be interested and ready. He isn't a huge fan of the saltier meats like ham but that is probably okay because of the sodium content. On Thanksgiving (pictured) he ate for 15 minutes longer than everyone else did! For you moms just starting out on the solids path, the key is variety. He hates to be fed by someone, he has to do it himself and the more choices the better. I can almost hear inside his head, "ok and now some Turkey, oh and Mr. Green bean thanks for joining the party, well HELLO Ms. Peach slice and I think I can just fit a few grains of you Ricey old pal!" The kid shoves food in his mouth to the point where he had to learn to take some of it out.
Oh the things you will see (and smell) when your baby starts eating finger foods. You find out more than a medical student would on what exactly our bodies do with food. For instance, did you know that the skins of vegetables and fruits simply pass through a child's body. I can easily identify and label tomatoes, beans, and carrots. The one thing I was very nervous about was the addition of meat to his diet. I had heard such horrible things about his poops changing to toxic waste. Luckily though, the smell hasn't gotten worse at all. Of course, Oliver is still eating a vegetable centric diet, so that could be the reason, but he does have the occasional piece of turkey or chicken patty.
It is so much fun letting him try new things! So far, he likes everything but spice. He wipes spicy off his tongue.
3 comments:
Cute about the spice.
LOL @ shovelling in so much, Blake's the same. Is it a kid thing or a typical boy thing?
Glad to hear he's doing well with solids now. :)
HOW THE HECK do you get him to eat beans? B squeezes them in his hands gets cranky cause they wont mush like pumpkin & chucks it.
Dunno, I tried it cause he doesn't eat much meat and he gobbled them down, I think kids are just different, some like the texture, some don't. We eat a bunch of mexican food here, so beans are very available. LOL!
I discovered that artificial blue food turns poop a very scary lime green. So, no more of THAT. Anyway, this is such a "fun" time!
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