Halfway down the Danube

Chinese gooseberries

Since he was eating solids, Alan hated kiwis. We don't really know why -- and who knows anything when it comes to a toddler's food preferences, anyway? He hated them, didn't want anything to do with them, so we dropped them from his menu. Once in a while, I would buy some and try again, to no avail. Whatever he didn't like about them was hard-wired.

Or so it seemed.

We had another trial yesterday, and lo and behold!, he loved them. Absolutely loved them. Doug instantly evolved a new game which involves a lot of yelling "Chiiiiiineeeeeeessssssse Gooooooooooseberry!". Talk about encouraging a toddler to speak and giving him easy words to pronounce.

(If you don't know what the Chinese gooseberry has to do with kiwis, click here or here.)

If you have a toddler somewhere in your life, you'll understand how enthusiastic we are that he finally succumbed to these little vitamin bombs. His eating habits are erratic at best. His dinner tonight: 0 quesadilla (rejected, firmly), 5 spoons of pasta with veggies, 2 kiwis, 18 olives, 3 cherry tomatoes.

It's a diet of sorts, I guess.

Posted by claudia at November 15, 2003 07:20 PM