Most children have certain foods that they don't all together enjoy having to eat. I'm not a big fan of kidney beans or collard greens (nor apparently anything that rhymes with "eens"). My brother, Mike, has never enjoyed the taste of broccoli or sweet potatoes in his mouth. The Ripperton boys don't seem to like anything! But I assumed that with Lily, things might be a bit different. Perhaps because Greg seems to like pretty much everything, perhaps because she's a baby and has a very limited diet as it is. But I assumed that Lily would eat whatever I put in front of her. While in a certain way that's true, at least everything I put in front of her does end up in her mouth at some point, she has come to greatly dislike anything resembling baby food. Give her pureed carrots or sweet potatoes, a grimace appears on her face and the food is immediately spit back out. Give her guacamole or mashed potatoes, she can't get enough. But clearly this isn't exactly hurting her, as she weighed in at just over 17 pounds and was 28 inches tall at yesterdays check up.
But lately, the food of choice is paper, any paper. If she can get her hands on paper, she eats it like a starving Ethiopian that's been given a doughnut. So we've decided that in our house recycling is no longer needed. If you need to shred some junk mail, give it to Lily. If you no longer need those pesky bills, give them to Lily. If you need to find some place to dispose of your old phone books, give them to Lily. While I joke about actually giving her all this paper, my guess is that she
would attempt to eat it, if only given the chance. So a word to the wise, if Lily is going to be at your house, hide any paper that might one day be of value to you!
What's up Waskally- Wabbit?
Isn't she beautiful?
