I always enjoy a little bit of adventure in my life. Love to see new places, experience new
things, meet new people, experience the culture. Part of what goes into all of that for me is
the food. A necessity whenever we are
traveling is to try either local cuisine or at the bare minimum, a chain that
is only located in the region. For
example, when Bethany and I traveled the Pacific Coast Highway, there was
rarely a day that went by that our dinner didn't consist of something that
could only be found in the area. You
didn't see us settling for McDonald's or Taco Bell (Although, one cannot truly
say that one settles for Taco Bell). I
already see a bit of that adventurous spirit coming out in Ellie as we're
starting her on solid foods. In fact,
we've tried her on three different foods thus far and garnered three very
different responses.
For example, the very first food that we tried Ellie on was
rice cereal. Clearly an old
standby. Basically what anybody says you
should feed a baby first. I haven't done
the long-term scientific study to support that hypothesis, but I'm just going
to trust in those that did. The first
couple of nights that we had Ellie on rice cereal, we were guilty of mixing it
with too much milk. As a result, the
consistency of it was reminiscent of a cold bowl of porridge (I think). I mean, it's doubtful that Goldilocks would
have enjoyed it and here we were shoving it down Ellie. Once we corrected our mistake, she became
quite the fan of it.
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| I was bummed to find out that these guys don't live in rice cereal, only 'Rice Krispies'. |
After a few days of feeding Ellie rice cereal, we decided it
was time to expand her pallet. Taking
into account the foods we had on hand, we decided to move onto peas. On the first night, we happened to mix the
peas into the rice cereal resulting in a super weird confection. As we put the spoonful in Ellie's mouth, her
immediate reaction was to open her mouth and just let her tongue hang
there. It was like she was saying,
"What are you doing to me?"
Keeping that in mind, we proceeded to try peas by themselves the next
couple of days resulting in worse and worse reactions each time. On the final day, Ellie actually went into an
epic meltdown as if to say, "No, no, no.
I don't want peas again. Don't
you dare do this to me again!" And
thus ended the peas experiment.
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| I like that my daughter and my former roommate, Joey, have the same reaction to peas. |
Of course, like any good scientist, we would be remiss if we
ended our experiment here. The next
focus: sweet potatoes! From the first
time we spooned a serving out, Ellie was instantly intrigued. As she took her first bite, her eyes widened
and her mouth erupted in a huge smile.
She immediately swallowed, leaned forward in her high chair, and grunted
enthusiastically as if to say, "More, more, more." So of course, we obliged and with each spoonful, Ellie would lunge forward and the spoon would disappear deep into the recesses of her mouth. As we're just starting Ellie out on food, we
definitely don't want to overfeed her.
Unfortunately for us, she loves the sweet potatoes so much that she will
actually break down when she's cut off for that meal. I don't know if it's possible for somewhat to
be addicted for sweet potatoes, but Ellie's pretty much there. It's like crack for babies.
Today marked a sad day in the Holt household though. The sweet potato supply has dwindled and we
are now forced to move onto other edibles.
The options remaining? Carrots,
peaches, and pears. Time will tell if any of those will fill the void that the sweet potatoes have left in
poor Ellie's stomach and her heart. And
her heart. #DaddyWrite
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