Our not-quite-so-baby girl is pretty much a clone of me… (yes, even inherited the drama-queen gene, much to the chagrin of hubby whenever that one comes to full force!), down to the super duper sweet tooth.
In fact I think ‘coookeee’ was one of her first words.
… which brings us to this week as I was eating some peas fresh from the pods (yummy!) in the kitchen. (which happened to be by some cookies we had made a day before).
As she walks in, she comes up to me and reaches out her hand (sure that I am eating some of her favorite treat.)
When I gave her the fist pea, this is how it ended up…
yes, she put it on the floor, then stepped on top of it. Kind of a sign that she wasn’t terribly interested… then she walked to the cookies and repeated “cooookeeee”
calling on all of my dietetic lessons, I thought about the studies that have shown that children need to be exposed to a new food up to 11 times before they will actually eat it… (a fact that was much easier to tell people before I had kids – once I entered parental realm, 11 times seemed like a much higher number of times to offer a rejected food!)
So I offered it again…
And much to my surprise…
She went for it!
Again…
and again…
Who knew the power of the pea could cut the 11 tries down to 2??!
One small step for the vegetable…
One giant leap for mommy sanity.
