Peas? No Thank You!

Yesterday, Cutie Pie's Teacher informed me that he didn't eat his peas. I laughed and told her about the time I tried to give him peas and he rejected them. Cutie Pie likes babyfood peas. He eats them all the time. Peas have the most fiber of all the vegetables so anytime Cutie Pie gets stopped up, he gets a meal of peas. I thought he'd like to try the real thing so I put a few on his plate one day. He looked at me like I was crazy.

Apparantly she had been pretty surprised because she had never seen Cutie Pie turn down any kind of food. I've watched Cutie Pie eat lunch at school with his friends. The teachers have to feed Cutie Pie two spoonfulls of baby food then hurry and give all the other babies one spoonfull as fast as they can before Cutie Pie notices that he's not being fed. At home, Cutie Pie loudly complains if I dare to take a bite of my own dinner in between Cutie Pie's spoonfuls of baby food.

So last night, we just happened to have peas with dinner. What are the chances? I decided to try again to instill a love for green vegetables in my child. I picked a couple of peas out of my meal and put them on his tray. Cutie Pie just stared at me. I smashed one. Cutie Pie whined for more baby food. Then I had a genius idea. I put a pea on the spoon and fed it to Cutie Pie with a little bit of baby food. I thought that if Cutie Pie could just get used to eating peas, maybe he'd like them. No such luck. Cutie Pie ate the baby food, swallowed, then spit out a pea. I tried again but this time I smashed the pea first. Out came the smashed pea. After four or five tries, Cutie Pie finally ate a pea, I think.

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