I like peas...

...but I don't like eating them. We have begun the great introduction of vegetables and like people of all ages some will be great and others will not make the cud. To borrow an unconfirmed fact from my wife, which she says read, "Children need to try something as many as 21 times before they can make a decision on whether or not they like it." Well, we gave peas a shot a few times and he enjoys using it for painting his face like the Incredible Hulk but not so much for eating. He did get down a little, of which he managed to upchuck a short time later. So he says no to peas but seems to enjoy squash, which smells horribly wrong so dad doesn't like squash night. Quentin gets it all over the place so everything reeks of squash, which is down right nasty. He is digging the sweet potato and took a shot at carrots yesterday. To date that's all we've introduced. He needs to take a couple of turns in a row at each one to make sure he doesn't have an allergic reaction. We don't want him breaking out in hives. If he was found to be allergic to squash we would be okay with that. We're biased towards the squash.

Dinner has turned into quite the messy affair. Note the pictures. One, the aforementioned pea dinner and the other I believe is an evening with Mr. Stinky Squash. He gets it into his ever growing surfer locks and uses both hands to help shovel the spoon into the caverns of his mouth. You only have a split second to beat his hands to his mouth so you have to be quick. With his hands full of the vegetable goo and flailing about wildly there is a good chance you too will need a bath to get the sweet stench of the squash off you before you hit the sack. I think next week we are going to graduate into fruits so one can only assume things are going to get a lot sloppier around here.

Did I mention Carrie is making all of Quentin's food with the exception of carrots, which I guess have some sort of carcinogen in them, making them dangerous to make at home? Who knew? So the carrots are being bought but the rest are in various baggies frozen in time in our freezer. It makes for a crowded freezer, but added some much needed color to our rather bland inside looking freezer. Enjoy the food fight pictures.