I Want What You Are Having

Joshua enjoying his first piece of pizza.

A very tricky thing with a growing baby is the whole food situation. After you get the pureed thing down, it gets a little easier. There are a ton of choices for babies first food, and all you have to do is pick one and give that food to the baby for 3-5 days in a row and then switch to something else. In the beginning it is pretty easy, and it is only a tablespoon or two. As Joshua grew, 1 meal a day turned into 2 and then into 3. 2 tablespoons turned into half a jar and then into a full jar. (For the most part, I was pretty good at buying fresh organic vegetables and pureeing them and freezing them). Joshua was a pretty easy baby with food and would eat just about anything.

Now, let's fast forward to 14 months. Joshua has 4 teeth with 2 more teeth up top that have broken through. He can now eat a variety of more finger food. Unfortunately, now he has decided to turn food away that he used to eat no problem. He also seems to only want to eat vegetables that are pureed as opposed to finger food. Plus, we typically offer Joshua one type of food while we eat something else that he can't really eat. Probably not a good thing. Joshua is now turning away what we want to give him and point at our plates as if to say "I want what you are having". So, it has turned into a little trick. It seems sometimes that if I put his food on my plate, he will then take a bite. With kids, it is all about the trickery.