Super Duper Pooper

He's a super duper pooper and I'm the super duper pooper scooper.  10 months old / 3 solid food meals a day with formula in between equals lots of diaper time.  I know kids all vary, but really, I thought maybe he needed some time to regulate and get used to the solids...but he still continues to have a bm after every feed.  Ah well, at least he'll eat anything we give him..he's already tried Pad See Ew (Thai Noodle Dish), Curry, Pancit (Filipino Noodles), Fried Chicken (although he did throw up later that day), Guacamole (also threw up later that day), Mac and Cheese, Peanut Butter and Jelly, Yogurt with cereal and fresh fruit.  He loves Hummus. He likes fish, fried eggplant, rice and bread.  He had lemon chicken yesterday as well as couscous with chickpeas and edamame.  He likes those Auntie Annie's Cheddar Bunnies but whatever snack you're snacking on, he wants to try it to.  And of course since his dad is a vegetarian, he'll eat tofu - no problem.  Sometimes I feed him the organic baby food in a jar.  Sometimes I think I should feed him first before we have dinner...wrong!  He still wants to eat our food even after he finished all of his...and gets very upset if he is left out of it.  We swear he has hollow legs or something because where is he putting it?  I guess that accounts for all the bm's. 

Is it too early to introduce all this crazy food into his diet?  Some of my friends were shocked when we were feeding him guacamole but I think most kids love avocado.  I guess they were concerned with the other stuff that's in it: onions, jalepeno?  Well we test out new food to see how he reacts - if he does get sick after or have an allergic reaction, we'll avoid it for future.  For the most part, he's been ok.  No allergies yet.  He did get sick several hours after eating the fried chicken but he's eaten other forms of chicken so it  might have been the heat or maybe the way the chicken was prepared.  Same with guacamole, he's eaten guacamole before, and the time he threw up after, I feel like it might have been the heat because those 2 days were really hot and we were outside for most of the day.  I still am avoiding kiwis and mango though for now. 

Apparently I was a picky eater as a child.  My mom said thank goodness he's not.  Or maybe I just didn't like my mom's cooking (hope she doesn't read this).  I never liked eating Filipino food either (which was my dad's specialty).  I didn't like meat, like steak and porkchops, but I think that was because my mom liked (and still likes) to cook those very well done, a.k.a. burnt which equals very chewy meat which I still hate now.  As a child, I remember I used to love spinach of all things.  Spaghetti & meatballs was another favorite.  And I still love grilled cheese to this day.  I do know I was very picky up until college.  And it was in college where I started trying out all kinds of weird food that they served at our dining hall.  It was also where I gained 15-20 lbs. The dining hall also served different desserts every day, like cake and giant chocolate chip cookies.  Growing up, my parents rarely made dessert..it was typically a banana for dessert.  So when I got the opportunity to eat chocolate cake, cookies, etc, well I went for it and it sure did show...especially Freshmen year.  The daily availability of fries and tater tots didn't help the cause much either.  It could have also been the late night pizzas (and perhaps the beer?). Ugh.  And then you hit 30...but now I'm going off on a tangent..

Ah well, our little man was only in the 5th percentile in weight at his 9 month visit, and I don't know if our full fat diet (as in full fat yogurt) for baby has worked to give him a little more meat on his bones but I think his cheeks are looking a little fuller.