We took a trip last week to visit the
family in the country. Everyone had a blast! Probably the most
relaxing trip we’ve had as a little family of four. The kids
were super excited to see the new dogs and the new kitchen,
although I think their kitchen excitement may have just been a
reflection of my own :) We visited with a high-school friend of
mine and her kids, I did a Pampered Chef show for another old
friend, we had a fun-filled afternoon with Grandpa Tom’s two
brothers and their families. The kids got to meet a cousin!
(technically a cousin of mine, so a second cousin?) A good time
was had by all and we’re looking forward to our next visit
:)

A lesson that I learn and then forget,
then relearn and reforget (sometimes very quickly!) is that Lex
is a whole foods kinda guy, and raw when possible. I’m sure I
posted about the carrots last summer. He won’t eat the baby
carrots (open bag, put on plate, easy for mommy) but he will
usually eat a whole carrot. These days he only sometimes eats
carrots, but when he does it’s only whole, raw carrots. He
hasn’t touched green beans since last summer when he was
picking them off the vine. He also inhaled strawberries last
summer, but has since been telling me he doesn’t like
strawberries. I bought some yesterday and it occured to me that
maybe the problem is that I always cut them up, so instead I
washed them, hulled them and put them on his plate… and he
ate seven!!! Crazy kid. Another eating quirk is that he seems
to prefer dishes with three ingredients or less, except for his
“goldfish and bunnies kinda snack” where he mixes dozens of
kinds of crackers and dried fruit together :) But for real
meals if there is more than two or three ingredients he won’t
even touch it. With these realizations and the fact that I am,
theoretically, smarter than a three year old, I should be able
to get him to eat vegetables and a more varied diet, right?
We’ll see :)