What's on the menu

These days, Sim is trying lots of new foods and liking most of them. He's a very gratifying eater, since when he really likes something, he gets a big smile on his face when it's put in his mouth. He's also a full-body eater, as Michael likes to say. He'll lunge at the spoon or hand with the food in it, then lean back and enjoy it, then lean forward and lunge again.

Here, in no particular order, are some of the foods Sim's found he likes:

cherries
apples
applesauce
baby applesauce with apricots (one of the few baby foods he likes)
cucumbers
broccoli
peas (but not strained -- gross!)
green beans
pork
chicken
beef
oatmeal
beans
bacon (BIG grin with that one the first time!)
raspberries
blueberries

He's eaten most of what we have offered...except the strained peas. He had two bites or so both of the times we offered them and then refused to let any more into his mouth. He looks like a friendly, happy baby who could easily be convinced to try another bite of strained peas, but he has a will of iron inside that cute baby exterior. The funny thing is, he likes peas that are cooked by not strained.

The broccoli tryout was pretty amusing. We were having it with dinner, and the girls both like it, so they were eating a bunch. We were feeding Sim chicken, I believe. He somehow indicated that he wanted broccoli -- staring at it and making urgent sounds, if I remember correctly -- so I gave him a bit to try, figuring that he'd do the strained-peas-will-of-iron thing after not too long. He ate a lot of the broccoli -- for a baby -- and enjoyed it. So all three of them like broccoli.

Sim has also discovered that the girls drop things off the table, and usually in his combat-crawling rambles he'll head there first to check out the buffet of any un-vacuumed items. He's relentless in his efforts to get whatever might be there. The will of iron again. So, needless to say, I've been vacuuming under the table more often. "Cleaner living through trying to prevent small people from eating stuff off the floor," that's my motto.