Margaret Munching...

At dinner today, Cara saw me feeding Margaret and she had some food around the edges of her mouth, along with some food dropped along the way as is my norm.  In passing, she mentioned that Margaret would likely be cleaner if she fed itself, so I pushed the bowl of spaghetti and the fork in her direction and said "Game on!"

The cleaning crew shows up...

I think I won this round!

And, the pictured don't do justice to the spaghetti covered pants, shirt & chair that can't be seen in the photos!

Margaret's First Bites

This morning, Margaret had her first few bites of solid food.  We have been planning for this for a while, as she is a voracious eater, but Cara waited until I could be there.  Her sisters were tremendously proud of her, as you can see.

Addicted too Young

If Frances decides to love chocolate any more, we may have to stage an intervention.

Bonus Frances Eating Video

Here is a video from one Frances' first times eating cereal, and yes she does try to wear it like a hat!

Frances Eats Her Birthday Cake...

In response to Cara's rhetorical question if anything was cuter than a (implied) picture of a child eating cake, the answer is course: YES! A VIDEO OF A CHILD EATING CAKE!

Behold:

The Finickiness of Toddles

Teresa used to eat anything, curry, beans, whatever we were eating, she would eat. The past year and a half however, has been a struggle. She likes one thing one week, then not the next. She actually went for months on end without eating anything green. The past couple months though, things have been improving. She has begun (reluctantly) to allow sauce on her pasta, eat foods that consist of multiple textures, requests green beans, and the number of meltdowns have decreased significantly. This is due to consistency, determination and unabashed bribery. Through trial and error we have discovered chocolate cupcakes are most effective, and save these for the greatest of need. A good example of this would be lasagna.

Teresa used to eat lasagna. If she had a choice now, it would never make it to the menu. Ken and I do not know what it is about this food, all we know is that in order for Teresa to consume it, I have to feed her. I am sure her Auntie Pearl dies a little inside hearing this, but do not fret Pearl, we're on it. It will be an uphill battle though, this is how she reacts when 'forced' to eat Satan's favourite meal.

Frances Eating

If you haven't seen it (or are among those that are about to witness it and are wondering what you are in for) here it is.  The most awaited video of the 2009 fall YouTube season: Frances Eating.  Please note, fathers were injured by sprayed by peas in the making of this video.  We would like to apologize for that and will have better father handlers on set for future videos.