This is the soup on Thane.
Thane cracks us up. He chortles when he is happy and throws his head back in joy. He has some tremendous crusty eyes that he flashes when we say, "no, thank you." He loves to eat, and loves to paint with his food. It is rare to find a meal that he has not spread onto his head, into his ears and down to his toes. I am so grateful that he is still in the eating phase of childhood. I enjoy the peace of mind of that phase.
Emma keeps us cracking...the whip. ha ha ha. She is relentless when she wants something. Tenacious. Committed.
Emma decides before she tastes what I make that she is not going to like it, and not going to eat it. I tried to tempt her by placing goldfish on the top of her bowl of butternut squash soup. As you can see from the picture above, it was highly unsuccessful. They were untouched. Emma decided instead not to have dinner last night. She would not eat it. ( It did not help that dad wasn't home last night until 9pm.) I reminded her calmly,that if she didn't eat it, I would not be serving her anything else. She did eat her bread and a bite or two of salad.
The result for me:
3am. "Mom, Can I snuggle you?"
6am. "Mom, I want to eat breakfast."
A new day, a new challenge. I love my kids.
4 comments:
What an absolute cutie Thane is! Kate and Emma sound a lot alike. I don't know how she does it but when Kate decides she doesn't want to eat something she can go the whole night without eating too...so determined! Sounds like we have the same rules. As long as they try one bite they can choose not to eat it but there is no way I am making something else! I don't want the dinner table to turn into a battle zone Ü. Gotta love each phase of childhood!!!!
You might want to try feeding him while he's just in a diaper. Or put his highchair in the tub. JK
Judging by things at our house, the food battles continue... and, yes, some kids are stub-born! Enjoy.
That Emma cracks me up. Well, at least you don't have to worry about Emma caving under peer pressure (sorry breakfast came so early).
Thane is darling. I love how his little legs swing as he "eats."
i had a teacher once in a sunday school class that mentioned he would literally feed his children dinner in the tub if he was in charge of them, because it made clean-up easier, so dar you may have been joking, but i know someone that literally has done it :)
as far as emma goes... afton does that sometimes, but she'll usually eat a bite of something, and she has been known to come back at 7.30 (the kitchen closes at 7.45) to eat some more... but if you have any ideas to keep breakfast from coming so early when things like that happen, i'm open to ideas! when afton wakes up early for breakfast she's usually a grump all day cause she didn't sleep well, it seems like it's really more of a punishment for me than for her!
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