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Pasch Presents: A Typical Breakfast For A Growing Boy

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Paschaelina · 28/04/2011 11:39

Pasch arrays a lovely selection of food on Boy's tray, including mango, plum, rice cake, toast. Boy is strapped in to his highchair and bib applied with the minimum of fuss.

Boy: Whats this then?
Pasch: Yum yum breakfast time, see mummy is eating it as well, pick up some lovely plum, ooo you do like plum (realises she sounds like a tit, shrugs shoulders and starts singing instead - one, two, three four five, once I caught a fish alive...)

Boy: (thinking to himself), nah, dont fancy that at all, wish mum would stop shoving plum in my face

minutes later

Pasch: come on, mum-mum's finished hers. How about some yoghurt with the mango, you can spoon it yourself. [desperately hopeful emoticon]

Yoghurt in pot, mango mixed in, one spoon for Pasch, one for Boy who flicks it around.

Pasch: come on then, yummy yoghurt, who's a good boy then?
Boy: Not bleedin' likely! Get that SPOON away from my GOB!

Boy turns his face away in disdain, side to side,lips tightly pursed.

Boy: You're not prizing my mouth open for anything! Gimme that ricecake-gumgumgum.

Pasch thinks she's clever by spreading mango on the rice cake - it falls off the bottom mid-mouthful Hmm

After half an hour of minimal eating, Pasch gives up, takes Boy out of the chair and plonks him into the Jumperoo only for him to spend the next 20 minutes chewing the floppy bee thingy which obviously tastes a whole lot better than food.

Roll on lunchtime Grin

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TheWaterHorse · 28/04/2011 14:39

Yep, sounds very, very familar Grin Especially the singing which I find myself doing a lot for my entertainment while I wait for dd to finish...

Paschaelina · 28/04/2011 15:37

Waterhorse, can I ask how old your DD is and if she is similarly disinterested in food as fuel?

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TheWaterHorse · 29/04/2011 15:08

She's 10 months. I'd say up until 8.5 / 9 months she ate very little, now she eats significantly more but still not loads. Even so, meals still take a long time with lots of pauses, hence I end up singing away to myself a lot of the time.

TheWaterHorse · 29/04/2011 15:15

Of course...the singing may actually be putting her off her food...

Paschaelina · 29/04/2011 15:21

Ha! Oh good, Boy is 7.5mo so still plenty of time to muck about. He very stealthily ate weetabix, yoghurt and banana all mushed up today after complete spoon refusal for 15 minutes, I just dumped the lot on his tray and left him to it while I emptied the dishwasher. Lo and behold after another 15 minutes most of it had disappeared (half of it down his bib, but still...)

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