Food Fight

I'm actually quite intent on not having food fights with my boy. Our approach to food is that our job is to make nutritious food and Finn's job is to decide whether to eat, what to eat and how much to eat. That's it.

It doesn't mean managing a pre-toddler's food isn't frustrating.

At the moment it seems he could possibly survive on bread. Doesn't like peas, bananas, advocado, black beans, carrots or any other typical toddler food. Will only eat full flavored, complex foods. Will not eat meat. Loves tortillas, toast, yogurt, cereal, toast, toast, quesadilla, toast, and rolls. Oh, croutons and veggie booty. LOVES the VB. And whole apples. Won't eat them in slices.

Ooookay.

Then there's spoon vs. hand. Sometimes he'll let us feed. Sometimes he refuses whatever we stick near his mouth. Sometimes he shovels fistfuls of whatever he has into his mouth. Sometimes he drinks his food and it ends up in his hair.

You never ever know. Feeding Finn is a daily adventure.

Don't forget the dunking. Everything goes into his cup of water. He doesn't use a sippy and instead uses a small cup and he ends up putting his food in it then drinking the water, then eating the soggy food. There is no other word to describe it other than disgusting.

Then he tried to feed it to us. Even more disgusting.

About this time M. and I start to wonder exactly why we're letting him feed himself. Are the long term benefits of him developing a healthy relationship with food really worth the daily pain?

Yes. Absolutely.

Still, couldn't he be just a little less disgusting? Just for mommy and mama? Is that really too much to ask?