Sweet Carrots

I have a dilemma…please anyone with the solution?  I mean, by the fifth child, you’d think I knew everything. Well, so sorry to disappoint…I only know almost everything (just ask my husband). OK, back to the point…I have a fabulously chubby six month old. He absolutely loves to nurse, I mean he really loves the breast-milk (mine must be extra sweet cuz my two year old is wrestling with my shirt right now…talkin’ about “booby”). Anyway, the baby nurses all the time and he still won’t take a bottle or a binky (had the same problem with the other four). He obviousely loves the idea of food because whenever we’re eating around him, he stares at us like he’s starving as he desperately tries to grab whatever it is we have…so I figured he would probably be happy to get some into his mouth – WRONG!!!

He hates food ya’ll. I don’t mean he dislikes it…I don’t mean he’ll get used to it…I mean he really, really hates food. As advised by most pediatricians, I started with single grain cereal (rice), then I tried green beans, and tonight I tried sweet carrots. They say not to jump straight to fruit or the child may never like veggies, so I thought sweet carrots would be a good middle option – WRONG!!!

So here he is, A’Darius LaVette Sparrow, with all of his juiciness (he sure looks like he enjoys food), reacting to tonight’s sweet carrots with all the precious honesty of a six month old…hilarious! I love you Little Man…I don’t know how I’ll ever fill up that round belly of yours enough to even hope I get to sleep through the night (he eats like every two hours) ever, ever again…but I sure do love every ounce of your sweet goodness.

I’ll keep plugging away at this thing called motherhood as best I can. The only thing more swollen than my boobs right now is this gut that I’m way too tired to work off, but I will continue to keep on keepin’ on. I have a feeling I’m not going to get you to eat anything unless I put a fat slice of pepperoni pizza into those big mits of yours…Oh well (sigh).