tackling the picky eater... my solution!!

i have a little video clip of the "sandwich incident" described below... um, yeah.  i opted to not show it.  i mean, if you have kids, you see them throw fits.  why would you want to see mine throw one?  and if you don't have kids {gosh i was a great mom before i had kids} then you really won't want to see mine having a fit...  anywho.

ethan and i have gone 'round and 'round on the issue of eating growing foods.  it is not fun.  but i have found my solution. 

dinner for breakfast.

let me give you some background information.  ethan is a hold out.  he will hold out for breakfast always.  always.

he will hold out for lunch the next day.  or the next.  he will just opt to not eat.

and i am sure that some people would say, well, he won't starve himself, he'll eat when he's hungry.

yah.... not my kid.  he gets grouchy, hungry, a real bear.  but won't eat.

i didn't really expand on the great war of the sloppy joe in this post... i just sort of referenced it.  it was a bad day.  you see, at the end of last month i made sloppy joes.  not manwhich out of a can, but really yummy venison sloppy joes.  in the slow cooker.  mmmm... i will have to measure next time so that i can relay the recipe on...  perfect comfort food.  but that's beside the point.

he didn't want it.  so i served it for breakfast the next day.

and he didn't want it again.

bingo - lunch!

well folks, he intentionally took a bite and then barfed.  for real.

so what did i do?  i wiped his face, lap and hands and we KEPT EATING.

i won.

and now, he knows i mean business.  he's been an ah-mazing eater ever since.  {well, not totally amazing, but tries lots of things, no fits, and eats what we eat}

except last night he didn't want his lentil soup. so guess what he had for breakfast this morning?

i think i am really on to something!

and you know what kind of treats i offer now?  bubble baths.  {opposed to showers, which he usually gets}  it is genius, and i am not rewarding with food. 

and while we are talking about food, can i just say that savannah has gone from crazy hollow leg girl to little lady that just picks at her food.  i know its a normal thing to do, but geez.  hard for me to wrap my mind around the change!!  this is the critical time period for not turning her into a fussy eater by just giving her easy food she will eat.

i'm reminding myself that these are all short-lived phases... short-lived phases....

xoxo, s