Eating us out of house and home

My baby has become an eating machine. Over the course of about three weeks, she has gone from a baby who would gag at anything chunkier than applesauce to an eating machine that gobbles up most everything on her tray. This is NOT a complaint, as I was a little worried that she was slow in making the transition to adult foods and would have trouble when it was time to switch to the toddler room at school, where they don’t get bottles.

Her favorite thing right now seems to be toasted cheese sandwiches, with just plain toast as a close second. In fact, she loves toast so much that when we make it for dinner, we have to hide it in the kitchen and save it until the very end because if she sees it, she won’t eat anything else until she’s had the toast.

She also quickly went from a distaste for cheese to quite a love for it. Other favorites at home include (so far) black beans, peas, pasta, cut-up pears, and mandarin oranges. They’ve been giving her the school meal at lunchtime for about two weeks now, and she’s had the opportunity to eat chicken nuggets, tuna salad, mixed veggies, fruit cocktail, and green beans (not all on the same day, obviously!).

The transition to the sippy cup (instead of bottles) at daycare seems to be going fairly well considering she’s just a week or so into it. She took all of her milk from the cup (as opposed to from the bottle) yesterday, so here’s hoping she keeps up with that. I feel like she’s right where she needs to be in this area.

During the week, I’m nursing Baby B once each in the mornings and in the evenings, and for some reason I always thought it would be the morning feeding that she would drop first, just because so many babies use that evening feeding to relax before bedtime. However, judging by how she’s acted this week, I have a feeling she’s going to drop that evening feeding first, because I can hardly keep her eating for more than 5 minutes (total for both sides) and she’s always squirmy and more interested in playing than in eating. Of course, now that I think about it, it makes sense that she’d drop this feeding because it falls so close to her dinnertime, so she’s probably pretty full after all that toast. (Dinner is at 6:30 p.m. and the nursing time is at 7:30.) I’ll still continue to offer a feeding at that time, but I suspect that is going to be the first one to go.