picky eater my you-know-what!

For the past, I don't know how long, Cayden has not wanted to eat anything.   What I mean when I say that is if we can get him to eat some fruit snacks or a handful of cheerios in between his sippy cups of chocolate milk, it's a good day.  However, in the last few weeks he has started eating more and more.  Choosing to eat chicken nuggets (I found some really awesome ones made with whole grain breading..that makes them healthy, right?), more cheerios than normal and eggs (see previous post about the incredible, edible egg).  This past week it seems as though we have made even more strides in our struggle to get him to eat and it has been pretty impressive.  Not only did he eat beef stew, homemade bread with butter and honey, and egg bake that has olives, mushrooms, onions, artichoke hearts and tomatoes but he actually liked it.  I started to realize that maybe he is NOT a picky eater as we once thought he was but that eating like a normal human being is just one more thing in the short life of this incredibly challenging, too-smart-for-his-own good 3 year old that he has to decide on his own to do or it just won't happen.  Unfortunately for us, it looks like his little sister may be following in that same trend.  At least she's still little enough to need me to do way more for her than she can do on her own (for now)!

Here is our weekend in review:



The baby gate went up after Harper took a little tumble down the stairs.  We knew she was fine when she stopped crying and smiled at everyone doting on her.

Cayden makes sure that the bathtub toys get lined up nice and neat before we get out of the tub.  We get lots of practice learning the names of the animals since he has decided that he needs to bath twice a day, every day.  I was hoping that his OCD would translate into keeping his room clean, but that is not happening, even with my labeled buckets for keeping everything separated out nice and neat (wait,is that my OCD or his?).