Ebby's Veggies Part 2

So, it was day 12 of veggie watch (see Ebby's Veggies) when Ebby finally decided to try a vegetable. In case you were wondering it was broccoli, with cheese sauce, in the living room. I was SO excited! He did decide that it HAD to be off my plate but I didn't care. He was finally eating. And eat he did. He ate all of my broccoli. It was a great birthday present. Thanks little guy.

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Ebby's Birthday

Because blogspot will only upload videos that are less than 100 MB I'm dividing our summer videos into 6 parts. (I told you there were a lot). So, for the next six days I'll one of the videos. Here's the first.

Autumn's a Smart One

Ok, so Autumn might just be the smartest 8 month old in the world. If you thought her balloon skills rocked check this out.

As a side note: I really do plan on posting about our vacation but it's taking a lot longer than I thought. I have over 100 pictures and about 20 videos I really want to share with everyone. Please be patient with me. I promise it'll be worth it.

Ebby's Veggies

So, Ebby had a routine doctor's visit last Friday. It was there that I was told I HAD to make Ebby eat his vegetables. The doctor told me to give Ebby two servings of vegetables and a serving of meat at lunch and dinner. That's it. Veggies and meat. Poor guy. At least he can still have whole wheat cereal for breakfast. Anyway, he said that kids will go as long as a week without really eating and to "hang in there" because he'll get really grumpy and moody until he decides he's hungry enough to eat his vegetables.

I really love our pediatrician but I think he's underestimating our son. It's been two days now of, "Ebby you really need to eat!" and "No, you can't be done yet you need to eat!" and "No Ebby! Don't spit that out!" Well tonight topped all. After dinner Ebby ran up to me in the kitchen and said, "Mommy, please eat." So I let him pick out any vegetable in the fridge. He picked olives. I'm thinking, "Ok, whatever, as long as he eats." And he did! He put two handfuls in his mouth and commenced chewing. Now, I don't know if it's because he was SO hungry or if it's because we've finally taught him not to spit his food out but an hour later he was still chewing - the same two handfuls of olives. It was so gross.

Usually we give him a cup of milk before bed and yep, you guessed it, he was still chewing his olives. We finally made him spit out the olives.

Our son ... THE MOST STUBBORN LITTLE BOY ON THE PLANET.


P.S. I thought about taking a picture but it was just too disgusting. You're welcome.