The Great Turkey Battle of ‘Aught9
This is not the face of a happy child. Obviously. I’ve talked about our struggle to keep Tessa’s weight up. When we started baby food, she only wanted to eat fruits. Because we wanted her to eat, we didn’t fight her on it very hard. We fed her veggies but kept them sweet and easy – carrots, sweet potatoes, peas. We tried other things but when she resisted we opted to focus more on getting her to eat instead of getting her to eat what we wanted her to eat. Now, she is looking like a normal, pudgy baby so we are starting to push the issue. She isn’t amused.
She hates all vegetables and proteins. We have to dip the vegetables into fruits to get her to eat them. Last night I decided to take a stand. She was going to eat half of the jar of squash turkey dinner if it killed both of us. It was a messy, unhappy dinner time. She spit and screamed and shook her fists and gagged. But she ate half the jar. I gave her a jar of fruits as a reward after. Yes, I’ve tried making baby food in case she just doesn’t like the jarred stuff. I did a sweet potato-zucchini puree, an avocado puree, a cantaloupe-blueberry puree, a squash-corn-broccoli puree. She has rejected them all. She much prefers the jarred stuff.
She still has a lot of yucky cradle cap on her head (yellowed icky skin). I consulted my BFF, Google, and found out that a little olive oil and a soft toothbrush might do the trick. (Actually, my new BFF is SwagBucks. I use it for 90% of my searches now. You randomly earn swagbucks when you do searches. I’ve been using it for 3 weeks and have 35 swagbucks. I haven’t done anything out of the ordinary – just my regular searches that I would normally use google for. You use the swagbucks to buy things from the swagstore. For example, a $5 Amazon gift card costs 45 swagbucks. If I can earn $5 a month to spend at Amazon by doing my regular internet searches, why not? Just as a disclaimer, this link I’m embedding gives me some sort of referral credit if you sign up and use it. But that isn’t why I’m telling you about it – I just happen to think it is kind of cool.) The toothbrush/olive oil suggestion worked amazingly well. I think after 1 more try I should have it all off. But as you can see in the last photo, even washing it twice last night she has crazy olive oil hair this morning.
And Sabrina was feeling left out and wanted to say hi.