eating
Cheese-ey
No, I still haven’t had time to go grocery shopping and we found another fast food place we haven’t been to during the move so we had Arby’s for dinner tonight. Solvei and Nels have had an Arby Melt before but I’ve cut up the sandwich and fed it to them with a fork. Tonight I just gave them a piece and let them try it on their own. They do fine with PB&J so this shouldn’t be too bad, right?
Nels did okay, got a little on his face and a little on his shirt.
Solvei…….not so much.
Fast Food
We’ve been eating mostly fast food during the move. Not just because the kitchen was either still set up at the other house, or packed at the new house, but mostly, because of the move, I have not had time to go grocery shopping or time to make meals. It’s amazing how quickly fast food gets really old. You can only have the same thing so many times. I was really glad to find there is a Carl’s Jr by the new house, because it is one place we hadn’t seen since we moved to Washington (and so have not eaten at yet during the move).
We don’t normally do very much fast food, so this is the first time I have ever ordered anything for Solvei and Nels that I could just give them packages and let them feed themselves.
Gavin’s Wishes and Noses
Walking home from the bus stop this afternoon Saedi told me that Gavin calls the white dandelions…..
I found a gigantic tub of animal crackers at Costco and bought them on a whim, because I thought they were cute and the kids would like them. They are Winnie-the-Pooh shaped.
In case you are not as intimately familiar as we are with Winnie-the-Pooh (having seen many movies/cartoons HUNDREDS of times) they are Tigger, Pooh, Piglet, Roo, Eeyore and Lumpy. Solvei and Nels LOVE them. They are quite tasty, but the reason I mention this is actually because of Gavin. He has a peculiar way of eating them.
Little Birdies
For breakfast I usually feed all the kids at the same time, but I sometimes forget to feed myself or I wait to eat alone so I can enjoy my food instead of trying to eat quickly in-between giving bites to the babies. Lately however, if I try to eat anything when the kids are not eating, Nels and Solvei want some too (even if they are already fed). They will come and stand next to me until I give them something, like little birdies waiting to be fed. Nels will take a bite and then impatiently wait for another, staying next to me and making sure I know he’s there.
Solvei will take a bite, go play around until her mouth is empty and then come back for more (but never getting in front of Nels).
POPCORN!!!
They are definitely Nate’s children. All the kids LOVE popcorn.
We got an air-pop popcorn popper (say that three times fast) and I am really glad we did, it makes much better popcorn than the microwave bags ever could. We ate dinner a little early today so when we were watching cartoons with the kids this evening we made popcorn.
I think it’s funny how the big kids, while still eating popcorn, are pretty fixated on the TV, but the little kids are fixated on the popcorn bowl. 😉
Polar opposites
Nels has come down with something. He is just a “grumpy gus” – looks and acts sick. Because he’s not feeling well he doesn’t want to eat; because he doesn’t want to eat, he doesn’t chew his food well enough, he then chokes and throws up (which I’m sure he already has a tendency towards because he doesn’t feel well). Solid foods of any kind are not his friend right now, so he’s eating very little and all he wants is milk.
Solvei, on the other hand, must be going through a growth spurt. She is all smiles, is so happy to get food, and is wanting almost twice as much food as usual. When I dish up the usual amounts of food for both twins, Solvei’s is gone before Nels has had much, if any, and she screams because she wants more.
At least Nels’ food doesn’t go to waste; whatever he hasn’t eaten, she usually will.
Solvei in the Pantry
All the kids know where the pantry is, and what’s inside. Whenever we open the door to get something, Solvei and/or Nels practically come running.
This morning, I asked the kids “should we go have breakfast” and what they wanted to eat. I got dressed and then went downstairs to make breakfast only to find Solvei already down there. She had gotten into the pantry, found a cereal box, pulled out the bag, taken it to the living room closing the pantry door behind her and was eating the cereal with her hands. When she saw me she knew she’d been caught and tried to quickly put what was in her hands back into the bag.
Do you want to eat?
Solvei and Nels like to eat. They scream and yell if I don’t feed them fast enough and do the “Happy Dance” when they get fed, especially if it’s something they really like. They know that there is food in the pantry and if someone goes to the pantry they follow trying to get something too.
It was getting to be time to eat, and they were playing on the bottom step, so I went over to them and asked, “Do you want to eat now? Let’s go get some food” and then got stopped by Gavin. When I was done Solvei and Nels had gone into the kitchen. I walked around the corner into the kitchen and Solvei and Nels were both pounding on the pantry door, trying to get inside.
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