What Chaltu does not know is how good sweets are! We bought cupcakes yesterday, got her a lemon one as she loves Lemon Meringue from Strawberry Shortcake collection! She took the smallest bite and then made a face like we just asked her to eat a spoonful of dirt!
Her eating has been interesting, not horrible except for bananas, those became her comfort food ummm don't let you child have 2-3 bananas a day :) yeah not so good for the intestines! But what else was I going to do her first week her?? Bad mom? nah...but now we are on official banana watch. The way we have explained this to her is simple hysterical, although I am not sure that anyone really wants to read about her "caca"!
But the good news is she was allowed a half of banana yesterday and probably a whole one today- this is more exciting than Santa was!
She is a pretty picky eater, and she does the smell test first, we told her she was like Babs (our dog!) she smells it and then puts such a small amount in her mouth and either nods that it is ok, or her face convulsions! But in the end most of the things she tries she then sweetly says "no thank you" in a sing song voice and has now added sweetie to the end. While I know she is mocking us I absolutely love every second of it!
We are finally eating ground beef! last night she ate more of that than her rice! YIPPEEE!!!
Corn on the cob is the next best thing after bananas- she was excited as we had that last night, she did not leave one kernel and I had to pry the cob out of her hands!!
I am feeling more confident in her eating and she is trying more things, but it is a slow process, she is a very cautious little girl.
We did finally by a shaker for the berbere, and yes we did travel with it the other day! We went to a friends house for a play date, they were kind enough to make her the pasta that she likes (fuscili only) and then we went out to dinner got her some rice and yep dad had to run to the car to get the berbere! Although yesterday she put WAY to much on her grits for breakfast and then she could not eat them! She learned to not go to crazy!
She is beginning to use utensils as well, everything was with her hands but now she is starting to use her spoon and fork (or pork as she calls it, she learned park and fork in english the same day...not easy!). I could write about 20 more pages (not on food!) but I will stick to 1 blog a day for now!
Well off to go wake them up! We have our social worker coming for our first visit!!
Our kids loved to put berbere on everything too. They've gotten away from it in recent months. Bananas adn pasta were heavy in our rotation too! So glad to hear all is going well. Can't wait to hear more!
ReplyDeleteAmazing. My two will eat anything.. except the baby doesn't like cooked mushrooms. Big A begs to try everything, and even if he doesn't like it, he wants to try it again the next day in case he changed his mind. He tried snap peas twice in the same meal because he wanted to make sure he didn't like them....
ReplyDeleteI love reading about your family and little Miss C. You seemed to have found your family groove already. Hooray for you all! Our kids didn't need the berbere, but all kids are different. Ours ate everything for the first 2 weeks, and once they realized they had access to food 24/7 (sad, really), they became much more picky about what they ate! Crazy kids :))) Its so fun, isn't it? So happy for the three of you!!!!
ReplyDeletePlease, please, please write 20 more pages. We love hearing about your adventures! Glad to hear the eating is going OK - at least she's trying new things. And, you can always eat the leftover sweets she leaves behind. (Assuming your New Year's Resolution isn't weight-related...)
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