Sunday, January 4, 2009

Lunch for champions

I've posted before about what a picky eater Makinley is. It's not getting any better. However, at least the four foods that she seems to love (or at least like) are healthy: bananas, yogurt, oatmeal, and applesauce. Now, it is very bothersome for her mommy that that is literally about all she will eat (unless I offer her baby food, which I am beginning to think she will eat until kindergarten if I let her), but at least it is something. It just gets very frustrating that I can't just give her whatever we are eating and her be content. She will literally just touch the food with her finger and start gagging. It never even reaches her mouth. I try offering her different things ALL the time, but we end up eating one of the four above mentioned things at every meal. I've even stopped giving her milk during the day to try and make her hungrier for food; she doesn't care. We go for her 15 month check up in a couple of weeks and I plan on talking to her pediatrician again about it then. At her 12 month check up (which she was really 14 months old when we went) the Dr told me she would rather Mak eat baby food than french fries. I'm scared it's a texture thing though and if I keep only giving her baby food, she'll never grow used to different textures. Now, she does fine with all types of snack foods. It's just main (nutritious) foods that I can't get her to eat. Anyway, today at lunch, she had her usual: oatmeal and a banana. She's getting to the point that she only wants to feed herself. She was so cute in her gray/black that I snapped a few pictures! Can someone please explain to me why my pictures won't load in the order I want them to? It's driving me nuts! Oh well, here they are in the wrong order!

Waiting patiently for my lunch

Walking towards Mommy to get in my chair (sucking on an empty toothpaste tube)


Eating all by myself!

2 comments:

Katie Jones said...

My pictures never load in the right order either- first picture on the upload list is last picture on the blog. So, I upload them backwards, starting with the one I want to be last. Or, just click and drag them around, but that takes forever!

Cute pics of Mak btw!

Carrie Beth said...

Very cute...she looks so grown up. The pictures always load backwards for me too. I just click and drag them around to the order I want.