Food

Here he is eating Grandma's spicy sesame noodles.

The Bear basically eats what we eat now. He does go to bed earlier than we do and sometimes I make something for him before we make our dinner but a lot of times it is leftovers from our grown-up dinners. Sometimes I'll feed him and he'll still be awake when we eat and he always wants to eat again...he always wants to eat what we are eating.

The most surprising thing that he has eaten most recently is lettuce. He kept coming back for more. Also, raw spinach (which was harder for him - he would gag sometimes.) He's got such a sweet tooth I didn't think he'd eat our salad. But he ate it. He likes raw tomatoes too. He's also not always predictable. Some days he'll eat avocado and love it and other days he'll spit it out. Same goes for hummus or blueberries, although I think the fresh Idaho blueberries have spoiled the Bear - why get blueberries from the store when you can get them straight off of the bush!?!?

He's really into self feeding too. Even if I'm feeding him something that necessitates a spoon he'll eventually want to try to feed himself (with the spoon) and won't let me feed him. That gets VERY MESSY, as you'll see in tomorrow's post. The down sides of having old, off-white linoleum is that rice and pasta will blend in and even if you think you have wiped it all off you'll end up stepping on it the next day (or the next week). The kid has got some speed and distance when it comes to tossing food. Sometimes I wish we had a dog.

Avocado-Bean Facial in progress.