Handful of Heppers: Adventures in Eating

Saturday, January 7, 2012

Adventures in Eating

I'm pretty sure I wrote a post about Caroline's foray into the world of solid food with the exact same title, but feeding the twins solid food really is an adventure so this post will have the same name.

For starters, since the first bit of rice cereal passed the girls' lips less than a month ago, I swear we've blown through about 10 boxes of cereal and 50 jars of baby food. These girls can eat! Especially Margaret, who seems to have the metabolism of a jack rabbit and/or a hollow leg where she stores mass quantities of food. With the exception of peas, I have yet to find a food that the twins dislike - fruits, veggies, yogurt - these little ladies eat it all.

We're up to three full meals a day and the girls expect to be fed on time, every time. At the start of each meal time, Julia and Margaret sit in their high chairs and clamor like baby birds waiting frantically for the mama bird to arrive with their food. I try not to waste any time passing the spoon back and forth between their mouths because if they are especially hungry, there will be tears in the few seconds it takes for one girl to take a bite while the other one waits.

And you'd better believe all this eating is messy. Margaret has a habit of sticking her fingers in her mouth after almost every bite and then smearing her food all over her face. Julia, who tends to be a distracted eater, gets food on her hands and then wipes it all over anything she can get her hands on: the high chair, Margaret, or her clothing. It's no wonder that dinner time is my favorite meal of the day because I can dunk the girls directly in the tub after it's over!

You would think that all this eating would lead to the girls packing on the ounces faster than ever. So far, I'm not seeing any huge gains, but we'll be going to the doctor tomorrow for an official weigh in to see just how far we've come. Fingers crossed that each girl breaks into a new percentile :)