The
whole back and forth during meal time is something that we expected to
encounter with our some but we were happily unaware of many of the factors that
come into play during these parts of our daily routine. Our son can be fickle
at times when it comes to what he wants to eat. Sometimes he doesn’t like the
taste of something while other time he simply prefers having something else,
something he knows he likes better than what is being offered. It is a back and
forth at times but something that we remain cognizant of as we don’t want his
pickiness to persist.
However,
lately there has been a different issue that has arisen during meal times that
has him turning his nose up at certain foods being offered. There actually three
reasons that we have discovered for his disagreement actually. The first is that
he has so many teeth coming in that there are some foods that do not agree with
swollen gums and new oral protrusions. The texture has to be just right at
times. The second sometimes relates to the first as he is now preferring larger
pieces of food… too small and he will sometimes refuse to eat, too big and we
are cleaning up more than pieces dropped on the floor. Too hot or cold will
also result in the same kind of reaction. I guess you could call all of these
things contributing factors to the Goldilocks conundrum.
When
all of these things are at play at the same time it can make for quite the
difficult meal and usually ends with various pieces of edible confetti strewn
about the kitchen floor. Other times everything goes as ‘planned’ or at least
pretty close and he stuffs his face like he is late for a meeting or something.
The latter is particularly funny when we give him a whole cereal bar and he
proceeds to devour it just as fast if not faster than most adults.
Overall,
we have learned to not get in the way of a hungry baby as there is a
possibility that you might lose a finger in the process. Mmmmm, meaty! In fact,
we try to give him his space once we put food on his tray as there are times
when he won’t eat if someone is watching him. This works out for us as we can
either get a few things done in the kitchen or, gasp, eat dinner at the same
time. After all, that is the goal that we are working toward as we want this to
be a time spent with family around the dinner table.
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