An Experiment

Experiments about here at Bethie's house.. A food experiment for The Boy.. A new scheduling experiment for The Girl.. Things have gotten massively out of control here and need to be reined in, mostly because of the schedule changes from the holidays, but I'm hoping this will jump start them back in place..

The Boy has gotten to the point where he only wants to eat frozen waffles. Which all in all I don't REALLY have a problem with.. But in the grand scheme of it all, when all he's consumed in a week is a box of frozen waffles, some homemade waffles, a few apples, and a couple of bananas and is refusing to eat dinner every night I do start to wonder about this particular food plan. The new plan: Mr. Anti Real Food will eat regular food at Meal times. Now.. Him going from never eating real food at meal times, to this new plan is going surprising well with the added incentive of "If you aren't hungry for this now, then I guess you won't be hungry for your after bugger guns piece of candy.." Oddly, this changes his mind. Nor am I expecting him to eat a lot. He HATES meat. He has NEVER liked meat and has NEVER eaten it.. EVER.. Even when he was tiny as baby food.  But Taking this into consideration I make the portions EXTREMELY small for now. Like stupid small.  Like for lunch today I told them they could have a dessert later for a snack IF they both ate a good lunch and doled out their plates.  He got 3 - 1/4 bites of chicken (really just enough to taste), 6 green beans, and an entire banana sliced.  He's eaten, so far, all the banana's, 1 bite of the chicken and 1 green bean and is trying to wiggle out of the others. T1 has eaten HALF a CAN of green beans, half a banana, and 2 entire chicken strips. It's been 40 minutes. Which is great. He can wait OR watch T1 eat dessert either way is fine with me.. I think that's going to be a great learning curve..



Now T1's new schedule includes a litter of timers all over the house to have everything timed down to the minute. And a written schedule of exactly what we need to accomplish down to the individual item.. It's a time consuming endeavor to say the least. Boy oy vey.. After the last couple of days of fit having, I'm willing to spend time constructively even if it is overly structured..

And T2.. EAT your chicken already... Geesh stop licking it, that does NOT improve it's flavor OR texture..