Christmas Eve is complete:
Outdoors adventure with the family + dog
Hot chocolate and games
Watched A Muppet Christmas Carol with my boys, the eldest of whom finally understood the story and really enjoyed it
Currently wrapping presents and watching Die Hard with the wife, as is tradition.
Having children isn’t easy, but there’s only one way to relive the wonder of Christmas once childhood has passed, and that’s through your children. Can’t wait to be woken up by super happy tiny people.
Merry Christmas, Hanukkah, or whatever you celebrate, T-Nation!
The health freak 2 year old strikes again…
I mentioned before about my kid not trying ice cream and just wanting broccoli, not wanting bacon and just wanting eggs, etc.
This morning I make a load of pancakes, my eldest is gobbling them down, we’re all sitting there, the 2 year old won’t let us put syrup on his, he tries it and is like ‘meh’, so he finally tries it with syrup, takes one more bite, and pushes it away, runs to the fridge and gets out the cottage cheese. Put some in a bowl, he scarfs it down and is now on bowl 2. I’m not discouraging it, it’s just like…eat a treat every once in a while ya little weirdo.
What about fruit (bananas), marmelade made with just fruit(s) as their ingredient list? Nut butters? Cream? Also, cottage cheese ON pancakes is delish.
Bummer. Maybe you can try to transfer him from cottage cheese to ricotta to plain cream cheese to maple/strawberry cream cheese to cheesecake to other junk food.
If that fails I shudder at the thought of what might happen to him if he ever has to go to an ice cream social.
Even if cottage cheese on pancakes is good, I want no part of it. I don’t eat sweet stuff very often, so when I have some pancakes, I’m putting syrup on them. That’s why I’m not into the million types of healthy pancakes that people make - I’m not gonna lie to myself about wanting pancakes. I want them in all of their carby, sugary glory, and I want to feel like I’ll burst after eating them.
As for the ingredient list, yeah, they mostly eat fruit and veggies anyway. The youngest loves bananas and blueberries, the oldest loves apples and strawberries, they both love carrots, sliced red/orange/yellow peppers, peas and corn. It’s the youngest that likes stuff that most kids don’t like - spinach, Brussel sprouts, broccoli, asparagus, etc. The oldest is like me with meat - he’s good with chicken, but LOVES STEAK AND BACON. If either of those are around, I’m sharing nearly half. The youngest is mostly into sliced turkey or the chili I make with ground turkey. He’s just a health nut, I guess.
@burnur haha it does make it sound like I WANT him to eat unhealthy food, which I don’t, I just live through them sometimes and the selfish part of me wants to watch his face light up as he eats yummy pancakes or gets ice cream all over his face. Honestly, I just need to get him lifting ASAP because he’s already a pretty big kid and his diet is on point.
How can you tell the difference wherein red green and yellow? They all taste exactly the same to me… I thought they were the same just different colors for some strange hipster reason?
