Eat Your Vegetables!

Update: I realized I forgot to post their stats from the doctor's appointment this week. Cullen is 16 pounds, 6 ounces and 26 inches long. Jack is 15 pounds, 7 ounces and 26 inches long. So Cullen is now a full pound bigger than Jackson! They're both in the 40th percentile for height and Cullen is in the 30th and Jack in the 20 percentile in weight. So I guess they slowed down in growth recently but I'm sure that will pick back up now that they're eating "solids."

Oh and the carrots and pears tonight were a hit! They liked the carrots way better than those nasty peas and couldn't get enough of the pears!



This is a flurry of posts today but I have been storing up all these pictures and probably won't have time to post again until the end of the weekend. On Tuesday, we had a 6-month check up and the pediatrician gave us the go-ahead to start feeding the boys fruits and veggies- yay! I've been looking forward to this! So on the way home I stopped at the grocery store and bought a bunch of baby food (I plan on making my own but my food processor hasn't come in the mail yet, so I have that adventure to look forward to next week!).

At dinner that night, we gave the boys their first taste... and they weren't too impressed! I started with peas since I hate peas myself and I want Jack and Cullen to like them. I'm not sure if there's any truth to the myth that if you feed your baby too many sweet things at the beginning that they'll grow up to not like veggies, but I didn't want to risk it so we started with the worst tasting thing I could think of - peas. As you can tell from the pictures below, they don't seem to like peas any more than I do. They immediately spit everything out and continued to do this throughout the whole feeding. It literally took me two days to get rid of one container of peas between the both of them.

I thought I'd be a nice mommy and not force them to finish the peas so after a couple spoonfuls we moved onto prunes, which they didn't like much better. I think maybe the prunes were a bit tart and too flavorful for them? I'm not sure but by that time they were so over eating real food and were beginning to cry. Poor kiddos!

Today, however, I mixed bananas into their rice cereal and the results were like night and day! They devoured it!! Jack has always been a bit slower of an eater but I have never seen him eat anything so fast. I didn't even know he could do it! I literally couldn't spoon it into his mouth fast enough and he was screaming for more in between bites! I guess they have a sweet tooth after all! Don't worry though, I'm not going to give up on veggies. We might take a break from green veggies for a few days (maybe try some carrots or sweet potatoes) but we'll keep trying! Then, I think I'll be smarter about reintroducing them by mixing them with rice cereal and then gradually reducing the amount of cereal. Anyways, here are some pictures from the first traumatizing meal of peas and prunes, their faces are priceless!

Here we go...

"Hmmm, not too sure about this"

"Uh, I don't think I like peas!"

"Yep, it's official, I hate peas, Mom! Get that spoon away from me!"

Jack (our little drama queen) gagging himself on the peas


Cullen's turn

"Sick! Mom, what is this??"

"Yucky! I can't eat this, I'll just push it all out with my tongue"

Oh well, onto prunes with Jack

"Ummm, these are just as bad as the peas!"

"I take that back, they're worse!"

"I'm not eating another bite!"

"Waaaahhhh, I can't believe my parents made me eat that! They're so mean!"