Days Like These...

My brother-in-law likes to tease me about my parenting strategies where food is concerned. I have been fairly "strict" when it comes to Reid's food choices and my brother-in-law likes to call Reid "Organic Baby". He delights in teasing me about feeding Reid "junk" when I'm not looking. I haven't caught him...yet.

I will start giving Reid cookies, juice, dessert, chocolate and candy once he can ask for it. Until then, I can't understand why I would put it in his mouth. I do buy mostly organic vegetables and fruit (at least for him) and am very careful about reading labels for added sugar and salt.

One thing I may be a little "over the top" with is snacking. I don't like kids snacking. In MY OPINION children snacking can become a big problem. Many meal time fights can be cured if they haven't scarfed down six handfuls of Goldfish crackers in the afternoon. So for the most part, Reid doesn't snack (my sister did this with her two boys and they not only have survived but they are great eaters).

Lastly, I am into "real" food. Not food that comes from a package. So if there is snacking going on in my house it's fruit, veggies, muffins, etc. I really haven't given Reid much in the way of crackers, baby snacks, etc.

Except today.

Yesterday, Reid only napped for an hour. In that hour he woke up three times. He has developed a runny, crusty nose (teething?). He had a restless but okay night. Today he napped for thirty minutes. Period. That did not make me happy as I was counting on him to nap long so that I could get at least a few things accomplished on my long "to do" list. Also, when he's awake I can't do anything because he's either bringing me his shoes to go outside, going through the kitchen cupboards or winging a book at my head for me to read.

I REALLY needed to balance my checkbook (it had been since April 13th) so I went to the pantry, dug around and found these:

And Reid did this:


for a long time.

Thank you, Gerber.