This One's For The Girls

3.29.2006

Loser Mom Strikes Again

I have endeavored so hard to give to baby Jane only the healthiest of foods. I breastfed this child for 14 months...she's now on Soy milk...she's had very little refined sugar...you know, the healthy-baby-routine. She has never had a piece of Captain Crunch. Until today. This morning as I was feeding my sweet, precious baby girl a bowl of freshly mashed pears, she started screaming. I said, "What? What do you want??" I finally looked over to the table where Anna was sitting, eating her bowl of cereal. I said to Anna, "Give her a few of those. Let's see if that's what she's trying to tell us." Jane promptly stopped screaming, stuffed all 4 yellow squares into her mouth and said, "Mmmmmm." Oh no, what should I do? Baby shouldn't be eating sugary cereal. (I know, I know, my 7 year old probably shouldn't be eating them either...) So...I... dumped 2 more handfuls on her tray and said, "Here you go baby."

Michelle
7:20:00 AM
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5 Comments:

At Wed Mar 29, 07:54:00 AM, Sarah said...: You and I lived on Captain Crunch and I, horror of horrors, didn't eat breakfast from age 12-22. I'm a college graduate, a healthy weight and still functioning. Jane has just discovered one of the finer things in life -- Sugar Bombs cereal! :-)
At Wed Mar 29, 09:01:00 AM, Anonymous said...: Oh yeah! Jane is moving up to equal status with all the other junk food babies in the nursery. Ella has recently started screaming and doing her NO gesture when I grab the box of plain Cheerios - she wants the Golden Grahams that we all eat. (They do contain honey, right? Doesn't that count as somewhat healthy?) How quickly they learn!
At Wed Mar 29, 01:48:00 PM, heartsjoy said...: LOL, What? you mean Captain Crunch cereal isn't healthy? ;)
At Thu Mar 30, 06:03:00 AM, SuperMom said...: HA! I LOVE it :-) I tried that healthy baby thing with my oldest, never giving him sugar until birthday cake on his first birthday. Now we have a tradition that the birthday person gets to eat cake for breakfast on their birthday.
BTW - I just woke up to my children eating potato chips.
Welcome to the Loser Mom's Club.
At Thu Mar 30, 08:33:00 PM, Michelle- This One's for the Girls said...: Hi Tulip Girl! I have been enjoying your blog for a while and it made my day to see your name here at mine. :)

Well, you see, Jane came along 6.5 years after the first four children, so I think I was subconsciously trying to make up for all of the bad things I fed my others. As you can see, it's a losing battle.

French fries don't qualify?? :)