Not me. CJ. He’s started holding food with his toes and eating it.
YUCK.
Really, I have nothing to add to that. We do stop him, I promise. Ugh. Just, yuck.
Being a parent is sometimes a little weirder than I ever imagined.
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I was making waffles for myself, and Alexa came over to beg some of what I had from me. I handed her a piece of a cooled-off waffle, and she took one look, threw it on the floor, and held out her hand again. I cleaned up the mess, asked her not to do it again, and gave her a whole unbroken waffle. She happily toddled away.
And then CJ came over. Not wanting to make the same mistake twice, i handed him an entire waffle as well. He took one look, handed it back, and said “Smaller mommy, I want pieces.” Which I complied with.
Kids. Such a puzzle. 
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Matt just purchased a Playstation 3 a week or so ago. He had been saving for it for over a year, and my parents gave him the money for the rest to finally purchase the system.
CJ is totally enamored with it. We have a game that is small child appropriate that we let him play, and that is all he wants to do. Of course, that isn’t all he gets to do, and he has limited and structured amounts of time he can play. But that doesn’t stop him from hoping.
Last Thursday, I told him to get ready to go to T-Ball. He told me he was sick and couldn’t go. I said if he was too sick to go to T-Ball, he was too sick to play the “black game” (what he calls the Playstation 3 because the console is black).
He got ready to go and got himself in the car. And never another word about being sick again.
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Yesterday on my finance blog I wrote a post about a generic item at Aldi being the same exact thing as a particular generic item at Kroger, and how amusing I found that. In the post, I happened to mention how picky my son is. I got a comment from someone about how their child wouldn’t be picky, because they’d have to eat what they were given.
And I honestly laughed out loud. For a few minutes even. I think, in fact, I might be slightly giggling still.
For I could have written that comment 5 years ago. I was going to feed my child the healthiest food possible, and they were going to eat it and like it or just not eat. And then I had my first child. And everything changed.
When I had CJ, the first few days were fine. And then he decided that he didn’t want to nurse. At all. And I went through a month of having to pump and feed him with a bottle so he wouldn’t have to be hospitalized. Luckily, he did eventually begin to nurse again, but that really was just an indication of how he is.
When he started solid food, I made everything from scratch, home pureed from the freshest organic ingredients. Some he loved. Some he HATED. And he completely let you know that. And even though all the “experts” said just keep giving the things he doesn’t like to him, and he’ll like it eventually - that isn’t how it went. Try a food he hates too many times (staggered and not in a row at all), he starts distrusting all solid food and refuses to eat. He’d rather not eat at all, honestly.
And he’s still that way to this day. Only offer what we’re eating, and he just doesn’t eat. And he’ll continue not to eat. I don’t know for how long, because I have my limits of how far I’ll push it at his age. But I do know it spans over a day.
And on the other hand - my daughter Alexa is so skinny that I’d feed her a steady diet of cookies if it’d help her gain weight. She has a wide and varied palate but doesn’t seem to eat enough to keep up with her activity level. I’m hoping she somehow gains 3 pounds in the next two months so she can at least find her way back onto the growth chart…
Oh, and the movie went fine, and my parents are here for a week and bought us a flat screen TV. More on those things later.
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No, not Matt. I’m talking about CJ.
He thinks he is the boss of Alexa. And not just in an older brother kind of way - he acts like he is her parent. Which I do understand is perfectly normal, and how big siblings act (I know I used to do it to my little brothers) but oh my goodness it is annoying.
However, he doesn’t limit it to just Alexa. He bosses around kids at the park, the zoo, and the playground just the same. If they break a rule he has - he tells them off and tells them to stop. He’s my little rule junkie. Always enforcing them on others.
Which does not explain why he’s so lax about following them himself when he pleases… 
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