Dinner as a family....

Sounds like a simple concept doesn't it?  Something we even take for granted from time to time.   A time when the family comes together, to sit and share....and eat.  

Just when we were at a low time with this and Little man (earlier this week he literally cried, insulted sobs, because dinner was being served).  He simply wants to be included.    We've done ice, and millet puffs, or we just include him at the table and let him play with toys, or sit on our lap; while not focusing on the food.   Well, he's now 27mo. old and that gets more complex, he's a smart little boy.  He "pretends" to eat and chew so well that I've thought he had gotten a crumb or something when he does it.  No, just playing with his pretend kitchen/food....trying to be like everyone else.   We, of course, play along just like you would with any other child- just trying to keep it a healthy growth for him.  Food is everywhere, we can hardly avoid it but we also do not need to be reminding him constantly that he can't have it.   Which is what his tears earlier this week were telling me....

Well, he may only have a few ingredients but I can get creative with those few ingredients.   Thanks to moms like:  Baby B's Mom & Samaya's mommy for inspiration to making creative foods out of simple ingredients; I made some new cookies for Little Man!   Same ingredients (millet flour with his hemp milk formula- so essentially, millet flour + hemp milk + arrowroot starch + safflower oil) but put into little tiny baking cups and he had star, heart, circle, square, oval shaped cookies!!   "Yummy cookies, more please" as he ate them, "yum good"....he is SO excited to be included, and he gobbles up every.last.crumb.  

I hope it is a preview of the food trials to come....that he will willingly ask for foods, the foods will agree with his tummy, and he will ask for "more"!