Friday, February 27, 2009

Eat Your Vegetables!

I think I've blogged about this before, but the issue has come up again. Why is it so darn hard to get my child to eat vegetables?! We've tried EVERYTHING (in our mind)! It's so frustrating because I think he eats too many carbohydrates. I mean, this morning he ate multi-grain cherrios and milk. For breakfast, he ate fruit and chicken nuggets from Chick-Fil-A. And for dinner, there was mac-n-cheese, a roll, which we took away until he ate his veggies, and sugar snap peas. Two bites of veggies and then he could have the roll. Two bites! That's all we asked! We tried force feeding him. We tried saying that he couldn't have the roll until he ate the veggies. And we tried saying that he could get down from the table. All those rolled into one big fight. Why are two year olds so freaking stubborn!!? Ahhhh! And then when I saw tears coming and screaming, "I don't want to eaaat," guilt set in, and it was so hard not to cave. He clearly wasn't going to eat his veggies. It had been almost an hour, and dinner quickly went sour. I guess this is a lesson in parenthood. To be patient with your children, and set the best example as you can. To eat your veggies, and perhaps, one day your child will follow your lead. I can only hope that my 4 month old child will eat vegetables. I sure as hell am going to make sure he gets those BEFORE he gets fruit baby food. Maybe when James sees Jesse eating his veggies, he'll think he can eat them too. I remain hopeful.

Thursday, February 05, 2009

"I love Jesus, but I drink a little!"

A friend on Facebook posted this on his wall, and I thought it was soooo funny! Hope you have a great laugh!