Pickey Eating.....

Drew is now officially not a baby anymore. It really does fly right by. He is starting to do more and more on his own. He wants to feed himself everything now, and is no longer a fan of baby food. In fact if you even let him see that his food is comming from a baby food container, he just turns away and shakes his head "no". So what do we do now? He doesn't like to eat the baby food, and whenever we try and feed him bigger chucks of our food, he gags on it. I never thought that feeding a person could be such a challenge. I noticed the other day that when I would give him cheerios ( and I give him the honey nut cheerios), he looked as though he was eating them. Then I would discover that he would suck the sugar off of them and let the rest fall into his lap. He has had cheerios turn up in all kinds of weird places. Down his shirt, up his pant leg....I even found one in the elastic of his diaper. Although the majority of them ended up as a snack for Ranger:) I guess we are supposed to be weining him off of the bottle too, but then where is he going to get all his nutrients from? We could certainly use some advice from people who have had the same experiences with their children.

We went fopr another walk with the sled last night, and this time we were able to muster up a few giggles from him. I had to swing the sled around in a 180 degree spin at a somewhat high rate of speed to get that reaction. Not sure really, where he gets his sense of adventure and need for excitement from..... maybe one day he would up for going skydiving with dad:)

Drew did however, love it when I was pulling the icecicles from the porch roof and throwing them into the snow like darts, after our walk. He is quite the ham sometimes. There is two very prominent sides to his personality. The most usual side is the inquisitive Drew, who like to try and figure things out. When he gets in this mode, you cannot interrupt him....or he will flip out on you. Yeah, he gets a little wrapped up in his work. The second is CRAZY Drew. This is the boy who wants to attack things..., be it you, what you have in your hand, the couch, a pillow, or just himself. This Drew scares me a little. Especially when you tell him "no" when his touching or getting into something you don't want him too, and he smiles at you...and touches it again......He'll be a hard scrabble...Im sure of it. There is also, snuggly Drew and Kissing Drew....It's very funny to me how he has developed such a big personality in only a year of life. We cannot tell you how excited we are to see what lies ahead for him, and us.