Just Eat It!

Lukas is a bit of a pain when it comes to eating.

Not only is he a lot pickier on what he eats compared to Sean, he has this tendency to change his mind about what he will eat on a daily basis.

For example, one of our staples has been spaghetti, Kim and I eating regular spaghetti noodles and the boys getting alphabet noodles. For many times they both love the meal and it was one of our "sure things" to make sure they eat a good amount.

The other night Lukas took one look at his bowl and shook his head.

"Uh oh," I thought. "This is not a good sign." Despite gentle cajoling and reasoned arguments, he was not to be convinced. It was not appetizing.

So I ate my spaghetti in the hopes he would come around himself like he sometimes does. But I noticed him staring intently at my plate and my fork as it lifted noodles to my mouth. I took one and offered it to him. He smiled and tried to grab it, fumbling to get the slimy noodle in his hand and then to get it to his mouth.

"Mo, mo, mo," came the request.

Kim prepared a small bowl of spaghetti and damn if the boy did not eat it all up regardless how hard it was for him to manage.

"Its the same thing!" I uttered in disbelief but my protest fell on deaf ears.

Nap Time!

The boys are in the process of transistioning from two naps (one in morning, one in late afternoon) to a single nap (one right after lunch) and its the biggest milestone since they started walking.

We weren't sure if they could handle it as they sleep really well in the morning nap prior to the change over, but the afternoon nap was getting precarious with some of them ending up with the boys playing in their cribs for an hour and getting very little (if any) sleep, making the evenings a little rough.

But they seemed to handle the lack of the morning nap ok after a couple days and the afternoon nap has resumed its two or more hour peacefulness. Since Kim started last week only once have the boys been too tired to skip the morning nap.

The advantage of the one-nap-per-day is that we have a larger block of time in the mornings to do things with the boys, and they seem to sleep better in the afternoon nap.