I started this post a few days ago and just saved it because I thought it was silly, but when I saw Jake eat tonight, I thought I might go ahead and post. Tonight he had plain cooked chicken, lettuce, salsa, and guacomole. Which do you think he was wild about and seemed to recognize...right, the guacomole. He was more than ecstatic. He just grinned from ear to ear and ate two heaping serving size tablespoons full. That's a lot for a little guy. We actually had some kind of chicken type burrito concoction that Jeff made up (he's really the better cook in our family), but when we saw Jake reaching for the shredded lettuce we decided to do his separately. Then he wanted salsa and then we added the plain chicken and then he wanted guacomole. Okay, so here's the post I started the other day.
"When we first got Jake, he wouldn't eat anything but noodles and some rice. We'd take him down to the breakfast buffet in Guangzhou (that was one amazing buffet) and he'd just drink orange juice. He wouldn't take the formula that apparently he took 3-4 times a day. But after a few weeks, we could tell that despite the orphanage and foster family saying he was a "picky eater", he actually isn't at all according at least to my standards. We used to have to warm everything up because nothing in China was cold....warm oj, NO ice cream, warm milk, etc. But now he takes things cold....that's not like some big accomplishment (we're all a little spoiled, you know) except that he is pretty easily adapting to our foods, customs, etc. But occassionally we'll get a little picture of what his food habits were like in China. For example, tonight was a free for all. I was just exhausted and couldn't even plan anything. But I fixed Jake noodles, sliced apples, and then he saw Dad coming with a hot dog and banana peppers on it and so, of course, he just had to have some banana peppers, and then here came Andrew with maraschino cherries (I have no idea why those were out...but remember I said that I was tired) and of course he wanted some of those. And then he saw some macaroni and cheese and wanted some of that (he hated cheese when we first got home). And then we finished all that off with a cup of milk. Hmmmm!!!!! It was cold cow's milk. Totally different from the crazy formula/pediasure mixture that I do. Now I know not all these things are good for you, so just know that. But I will say that it's just amazing to see how comfortable he is and how many different types of things / temperatures / textures he will eat. And to watch him walking around at our homeschool co-op with string cheese (again not the best for you) which he hated just a week or two ago I am just happy. Don't worry, we're not going to totally Americanize him with our fast food diet, prepackaged meals, etc. We are slowly, very slowly making not only gluten free changes (that had to happen right away), but also trying to eat somewhat healthier. But in the meantime, it's just good to see our little one adjusting and relating with the other children over food."
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