We're very lucky.
Jack is the sort of child
we all assume we'll have
when we decide to have children,
and the sort of child
less experienced parents
congratulate themselves for.January and February 2004
March and April 2004
May and June 2004
July and August 2004
September and October 2004
November and December 2004
Blogs we read:
Tuesday, Jul. 20, 2004 - (Mamma)
Yum Yum Yum
Jack's current favorite!
In the Garden with Van Gogh by Julie Merberg
Some days, you just get the feeling that you're doing something right...
The other day, after Rod and Jack picked me up from work, we all stopped at the grocery store together. Jack was in the sling and nursing. He seemed to be in his own little world, communing with "'Arry", when we hit the produce department. Suddenly Jack looked around, sat up with a bright eyes and a delighted expression on his face and started to say "Yum yum yum!" and then he started pointing to fruits and naming them -- well, bananas and apples got named -- everything else he saw was also an apple.
It was funny and heartwarming at the time -- and then I started thinking about it and realized that most days, Jack gets somewhere near twice the "5 a day for health" in fruits and vegetables. Primarily fruits right now -- he's not big on vegetables yet.
Breakfast is usually a banana and a half a slice of buttered whole-grain toast.
Lunch is often the other half of the toast, yogurt, and an apple.
Snack is often berries or grapes or pears or plums or another banana and some crackers.
Last night, dinner was pretty typical -- he ate 6 blueberries, 6 raspberries, 2 large strawberries, and 4 grape tomatoes while he waited for dinner to be ready -- and then he ate baked fish with basil and steamed potatoes with dill -- over half of my portion of fish and a big chunk of Dad's as well and a whole medium sized potato, plus a bit. He wasn't very interested in the steamed vegetables that went with for Dad and I.
Other nights he might well share our beans and brown rice curries or a whole grain pasta salad with chicken.
I fret about the junk he eats when we're out -- it's getting harder and harder to find wholesome choices for small children. These days shops have "low fat" and "fat free" in leui of wholesome.
But at home, we do pretty well.
