well, since levi's been old enough to eat any kind of food, he has refused. ok so maybe every once in a while, he will eat MAYBE 4 or 5 bites of some kind of baby food or big people food, but after that HE IS DONE! he will not eat any more...and we have tried EVERYTHING! eating when he's real hungry, eating when he's kinda hungry, eating when he's not hungry. you name it, we have done it. so at his 9 month check-up, his pediatrician told us that if he wasn't eating food on a consistent basis, then we would have to go to a specialist for "texture aversion." well, we have 2 weeks for this little boy to decide he likes "texture" and it's not looking good. well - i thought it looked grim until today.....
after he "helped" me put the water bottles into the fridge (meaning i hand him a water bottle, he looks at it and tries to throw it into the right spot on the bottom shelf - this process usually takes at LEAST 15 or 20 minutes, but hey he LOVES it) i left the door open as i stepped over to the counter to write down something before i forgot...i mean, being a mom, if you don't IMMEDIATELY write down your thoughts, forget it...they are gone for good. so i started writing something down and realized that it had gotten quiet...like REAL quiet. so i look over at levi and he's sitting on the floor facing away from me. and as i bent down, he looked up at me with BAR-B-QUE sauce all over his face and bib!!!! he had somehow unscrewed the lid off the jack daniels bar-b-que sauce and was savoring EVERY LICK he could get!!!! (don't worry, there's not actually alcohol in the sauce - and i know that because i was afraid i would have a drunk toddler for the rest of the day, and would have to skip taking our drunk son to the nursury because they don't allow intoxicated children at church ;) i could not stop laughing! he doesn't have "texture aversion!!!" he just isn't getting the southern, finger-lickin' flava in the pureed foods from gerber!!!! so we will see what his doctor has to say about that ;)
oh kids - they bring so much excitement into life! i LOVE it! i absolutely love the age levi is right now. who knows what will happen tomorrow.
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i've decided also that the doctors know nothing about our children too ;) good thing we're open to being taught by these kiddos & NOT the doctors!! i've learned much more from charlie himself than any doctor so far!! heehee..those pics & video are SOOOOO cute!! they are such a blessing to have around. can't even imagine life before him now... they're just getting cuter by the minute aren't they?!?!..enjoy him :) love you ;)
we're trying to get to ok city..and you guys come too...should be quite a hoot! just waiting on my dad to figure out his schedule...sometime this summer ...ooohhh...it'll be so much fun!!
well now you know! just pour on some ole bar-b-que sauce on all his food and he'll chow down! haha... priceless! pics?? did you get any pics???
Try to do the "dip dip" with the sauce that he likes. Or let him do it, he might eat anything dipped in sauce! Good luck.
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