I'm trying to give them a good variety of fruits (they hate fruit now), vegetables and grains but the only thing that seems to be a universal favorite are various dairy products- cheese, yogurt, keifer and milk. I don't give them any cow's milk products so everything is either soy, rice or goat.
There was about a week that they only wanted to drink things from regular glasses. Once they started refusing their regular food like green beans, lentils and avocado, I would just mix it with rice milk or goat keifer with ground flax seed and they would have a green bean lentil smoothie for breakfast. For a while the spinach and pea smoothies were very popular.
This morning I was just not up for the fight so I decided to give them a treat and give them all of their favorite foods- dairy products. This is what we eat for a treat at the Newman house for breakfast:
Seaweed sesame rice balls- a new finger food- they love it! Thanks Bambi!
Quinoa noodles with melted goat cheese- finger food
Celery spread with tofu cream cheese- finger food
Goat keifer, flax and herbed goat cheese smoothie- out of a regular grown-up glass.
Surprise- everyone ate this morning with no crying or fussing. They pretty much fed themselves with occasional drinks of the smoothie. It was blissful. They looked like a "Got Milk?" commercial by the end.
Check out the bottom chompers.
Shot of the top two chompers that caused so much trouble this weekend.
"Celery is simply a vehicle to eat cream cheese."- Eloise
This is the face halfway between laughing and crying- it could go either way.
Both pounding on the ball at that same time which works really well because it doesn't roll away.
"Like I said, celery is just a vehicle to eat cream cheese." -Eloise
Addy is now sitting up on her knees playing. She can pull herself to standing in the crib and likes to use me as a climbing gym.
"Look Mom- two hands!"- Beckett
Think I have my hands full?
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