Dinner with the Dummies

a.k.a. Dinner at our house.

I can only imagine what eating dinner would be like for a stranger in our house.

Owen has recently started eating more solid foods. Well sort of. We started with green beans. These did not go over well. In fact, they went so badly, that Owen stopped eating the cereal, convinced that it must be the same as that horrid green slop (which after a little sampling my self, I couldn't agree more). He even went so far as to refuse anything offered by me. I trashed the green beans and went on to carrots. Convinced these would be tastier I was all excited to have him eat them. Nope. Not having anything offered to him on a spoon by me.

So Cris and I came up with a genius plan to have him eat cereal again, before we tackled carrots (the green beans were frozen for a date way in the future). Owen was still very interested in anything Cris or I ate. So we decided that Cris should pretend to eat the cereal and then offer it to him. So we got out our acting chops and started fake eating everything in very loud voices.

"Oh yum yum yum. Daddy's food sure is delicious!"

"Nummy nummy nummy. Mmmm. Mummy's food is tasty!"

" Numm numm numm. gobble gobble gobble."

"Yum yum yum. Delicioso!!" (Damn that Dora the explorer and her backpack. I can't get that bag's catch phrase out of my head. Even worse it is followed by singing the chorus of "Back pack's" song. If you have ever heard it, your ears will bleed in sympathy).

Owen would watch us very intently. Surely, what we were eating was the best slop ever. So Cris tentatively offered him a spoonful of pureed cardboard (cereal). You would think it was liquid gold! He opened wide and took a nice big spoonful. He smiled and laughed. But refused to swallow. Little victories.

2 loud, long and overboard dinners later, we are back to swallowing cereal and have even taken carrots from Cris! I was beginning to think Owen was going to have pureed cereal at his wedding. We will eat Cheerios yet!