Usually we don't have a lot of trouble getting Isaac to eat, even if he does eat slowly. Not so tonight. (We were watching Top Gear, but we usually eat with dinner.)
I told him what was on his plate and said, "Does that sound good?" "No" was the respond. "Too bad," I said.
I looked over at him a few minutes later to see that he had pulled out a chunk of hair and was licking it. Yuck. "Why don't you eat some food?" Isaac eats one curd of cottage cheese.
A few minutes later..."Can you eat some food?" Isaac eats one curd of cottage cheese.
A bit later...I see him lick a piece of pizza.
Ben says, "Can you take a big bite?" Isaac eats about four curds of cottage cheese.
Isaac picks a microscopic something off his pizza and shows it to me. "What's this?"
"Nothing."
"What's this?"
"Nothing."
"What's this?"
"Sausage. Can you eat it?"
Isaac starts to bang his elbows on the tray. "Ouch! Belbow! Kiss!" After three kisses I tell him no more kisses. Of course, he keeps banging. I hide behind a pillow and blanket and pretend to sleep, letting Ben deal with it.
Ben gets him to eat his half banana by stopping the show every minute until he puts a banana piece in his mouth.
Sigh. I don't mind if Isaac doesn't eat all his food, but it's nice when he eats some..especially when he didn't have a big lunch either. He did however have plenty of energy after dinner, as he ran laps around the house for several minutes. (Every time he passed his robot he would pause, pick him up, show him to Ben, put him down, and keep running.)
2 comments:
Eating struggles are so frustrating. Maybe it was the following intestinal issues that made him not want his dinner? ;)
Hindsight, it might have been a sign he was getting sick? At the tune it's always frustrating though!
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