Category: Food

You played most of the night and didn’t eat anything, but by 11pm you were very hungry so we gave you chicken hearts. You ate around 5 by yourself. Mamae is so proud of her little brasilian.

You saw the onion sitting there, so mamae gave you a piece to eat. You took a bite, chewed and took another, finished the piece and asked for more. Mamae was so surprised she came to tell me, and insisted I post on yoru blog immediately!

This past week you really started eating more fruit, you never really cared for fruit and just recently started trying some of them. You would eat bananas, apples and avocados on and off and you added mangoes and strawberries to the list now. A few days ago you ate a whole mango in the morning and half an avocado after dinner, that was a personal record. You have been eating more apples and entire avocados. You didn’t want to try oranges at all two weeks ago, we have to offer again.

You have this strange habit of eating your food, then saying you don’t want any more, we give you dessert and then after you finish it off, you want to eat more food. You usually eat your entire plate like this. Today you had pasta with pesto sauce and some chicken, had applesauce and vanilla ice cream for dessert and then asked to eat some more pasta/chicken. Yesterday you had Brazilian chicken pie (empadao) and strawberry ice cream for dessert. Even before finishing the ice cream you were alternating spoonfulls of empadao and ice cream!

You were upstairs playing in your room with Daddy. Vovó was heating up your food for dinner. She told me to go up and tell your Dad that the food was ready. The minute I put my foot on the first step, I see your Dad coming down holding you while you said “nham nham”. He said you were playing and all of a sudden left your doll on the floor, walking towards the door saying “nham nham” because you could smell the food.

We keep trying to feed you new things but you usually refuse everything we offer. So different from a couple of months ago when you pointed to our food and wanted to try everything. Your dad made yummy strawberry pancakes for breakfast and we were trying to get you to try them – you wouldn’t open your mouth, turned your head around from side to side, cried, and FINALLY you ate a piece. And immediately picked up the other piece that we put on the table in front of you and put it in your mouth. I can’t imagine when we have to give you something that is not nearly as good as pancakes…

After you fell in love with cashew juice, I decided to give you mango juice. Sure enough, you loved it too. I guess you have a thing for tropical fruits? Or maybe you just decided that you like juice now, we’ll see…

Every juice we have tried to give you, you have rejected. Apple, Pears, Orange, Grape, you name it. I was having dinner and drinking cashew juice. You pointed to the glass saying you wanted it. I offered the glass already expecting you to turn your head away after the first sip, and to my surprise, you kept drinking it! I would take the glass away and you pointed at it asking for more. You drank quite a bit of the cashew juice, you truly have Brazilian blood in your veins! 😉