Tonight’s menu included butternut squash and Nicholas’ first taste of meat…turkey in a jar. We’re getting close to Thanksgiving and figured we’d give him an early start on the road to carnivorous bliss.
We wish that we could report it an unqualified success but alas, we’d be lying true believers! Imagine if you will the old Keystone Beer commercials where the young kid slamming a brew suddenly morphs into an old guy who looks like he got the wrong end of some alum powder. Yeah, bitter beer face. That should give you an inkling of the screw face Nicholas put on every time he got a bit of turkey!
Imagine our surprise at this…we knew it’d take him a while to get used to a different texture and taste but we figured he’d attack it with the same enthusiasm he has shown with pretty much every other solid food placed before him. We’re used to providing a tag-team feeding to him because if you’re not fast with the spoon, he gets a little prickly.
The really funny part of this was when we’d give in and try to give him some more squash. He’d give us the bitter beer face as if to say you’re tricking me…you’re sucking me in, I know it! It took a little convincing for him to open up and trust us again.
I’m sure at some point he’s going to really come to like meat but for right now, we’re happy knowing that this boy is likely to always want his vegetables and rice cereal/oatmeal.
