Well, our food loving ways stopped with peas. Yup, peas. A was game for a couple bites, then tried to scrape off his tongue. So we went back to sweet potatoes, bananas, and pears.
The kid doesn't like green veggies. He is my boy, that's for sure.
We're not force-feeding him, learning from my in-laws who force-fed C when he was a wee thing and then C threw up in his dad's bucket seat.
We went to our new swim class, which only has one other person, an 18-month-old named Rachel. Rachel is (obviously) walking and waving and things like that, but in terms of actual swimming prowess, she's not doing much more than A. She's jumping in the pool, sometimes not when she's supposed to jump in the pool. So I was relieved that A suddenly wasn't going to be in a class where he's completely outpaced by someone 9 months older. He did not have a rockin' time, though; less kids means more submersions and he was unprepared for all the submersions. But he did well.
Oh, and it rained in our downstairs bathroom yesterday. Yes, in the bathroom.
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Feeding tip: mix the green veggies with a food he loves to get the nutrition into him with causing tongue scraping. Don't force feed but do re-introduce each rejection a least five times. He may learn to love it as his tastes change. Two bites over green veggie by itself in any meal won't hurt him. Both my kids eat basically everything because we never gave up on a rejected food.
Yes, I've read (Marion Nestle) that sometimes kids need to have a food 15 times before they accept it. Fifteen!
We did peas again last night with sweet potatoes and pears. C wasn't mixing the food, but he would do a spoon of peas followed by pears. He still didn't like it, but we'll try it again. He had apples today and he liked those a lot.
But yes, like many parenting things, diligence and persistence are probably the key. That and not going bonkers.
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