New Foods

Strawberries and Cheese
Basically, Mr. Meh really liked strawberries. He saw me either them this morning with cereal and kefir. As he was trying to climb on me (while crawling), I gave him some kefir. He like it, a lot. Then I tried the strawberries. He loved them. I think also the fact that I was eating them helped -- he always wants to try and see what I'm eating. So cute.

However, the cheese story, much to my cheese-lover dismay, was slightly different. On Sunday, I gave him a morsel of a slice of provolone cheese, one of my favorites. As he was tasting it, he was making the most awful, disgusted face I've ever seen. Maybe too much taste, I thought, so I cut up into bits a low-fat, totally tasteless skim mozarella cheese (which I eat when I'm on a diet). He tried it, but made the same face. I even tried showing him how to eat it.....still...he didn't like it.

I don't know whether it's the texture or the coldness of cheese -- he loves other cold, dairy products, such as yogurt and cottage cheese -- so I don't know. In any case, I can't believe it -- that he didn't like cheese, one of his mom's diet staples.

Avocados, however, continue to be his favorite food. The baby scrafs down an avocado per day. Everyone I tell to that he's eating avocados, cracks up. I guess it's not that common, but Mr. Meh loves his avocados---will eat it even if he's complaining that he doesn't want anymore of whatever I was feeding a second earlier.

For a few months now, I've also been trying to get him to drink from a sippy cup without much success. He plays with it while eating and then ends up spilling everything on himself and his clothes.