I promise that Brian and I have not been promoting vegetarianism at our house in front of the impressionable baby! (We eat meat, after all....) Ethan, all by himself, seems to have declared himself a vegetarian - and just in time, since I just made a huge batch of ground chicken and stuck it in the freezer for him. :)
So now the challenge (besides keeping our floors clean) is to fill this boy with some kind of protein. Lentils (a great suggestion!) worked for one day, and then they were spit out of his mouth, even though they were part of this great dish with apples and cheese. (I ate the leftovers.) The quinoa (another great suggestion!) seems to pass muster as long as I make it like oatmeal and mix it with bananas, squash, and lots of cinnamon. (Actually, I've eaten those leftovers, too. They're pretty darn good.) Some current favorites: cottage cheese pancakes, grilled cheese sandwiches, cheesy brown rice...do we see a theme here? Anything cheese-related is generally a huge hit, but I'm looking for more suggestions of ways to be creative with a baby who has decided that meat is unacceptable!
The cutest thing that Mr. Ethan is up to right now food-wise is offering me some of his finger foods. :) After he begins to get a taste of what he's eating, he'll hold out a piece of pancake or banana for me to eat out of his hand. So sweet!
This new development just started yesterday, and he is already fairly accomplished. Brian is totally enabling this ridiculous behavior in the video, but Ethan needs no help at all!
The pathetic Ethan face is not an iPhone problem. It may be due in part to the fact that Mr. Boy has at least 2 teeth coming in, or that he is just barely getting over a bug that went into his eyes and ears after 10 days of his nose running like a faucet....or it could be that his Illinois basketball team is not faring well these days. Who knows? Anyway, he has not been the jolly boy that we're used to. :( Poor kid. It's hard being a baby when your parents aren't mind readers.
So now the challenge (besides keeping our floors clean) is to fill this boy with some kind of protein. Lentils (a great suggestion!) worked for one day, and then they were spit out of his mouth, even though they were part of this great dish with apples and cheese. (I ate the leftovers.) The quinoa (another great suggestion!) seems to pass muster as long as I make it like oatmeal and mix it with bananas, squash, and lots of cinnamon. (Actually, I've eaten those leftovers, too. They're pretty darn good.) Some current favorites: cottage cheese pancakes, grilled cheese sandwiches, cheesy brown rice...do we see a theme here? Anything cheese-related is generally a huge hit, but I'm looking for more suggestions of ways to be creative with a baby who has decided that meat is unacceptable!