A first for everything

Reading the baby books when you are pregnant is the only way you feel in control of what's happening to your body. I loved reading What to Expect When You're Expecting, matter of fact, I also had a weekly book because once a month chapters just wasn't often enough for me. But for some reason, this dynamic changes dramatically once you actually have the baby. These 'what to do' books for the first year or motherhood, are enough to drive the best of moms to the brink of insanity. Firstly, you simply don't have the time to read these books anymore, and by the time you look up something you have a question on, you just find out you should have been doing something else three weeks ago!

Last week we had a four day weekend, so I decided to pick up the 'how bad of a mother are you?' book and update myself on all the things I'm not doing. After three pages, I have enough info to keep me busy for weeks. On feeding, I should be starting to feed my baby some appropriate food from the table, and let her start holding food so she has an interest in feeding herself. So on Saturday I allowed her to plunk her hand into her spinach and rice. We now have a green stain on the couch, but phew, at least I'm being a good Mom. Sunday, we took Niamh on an outing to the park and stopped for lunch at a German restaurant. Wanting to give her food from my plate, but wisely assuming, Sauerkraut and french fries are not quite what the mommybook had in mind, I gave her a slice of tomato. This is what happened.

Got tomatoes?

Niamh could not eat that tomato fast enough! She took huge bites and gulped it down in seconds. If a kid acts like a tomato slice is the most delicious thing they have ever eaten, how deprived must they be? Imagine what's going to happen when we give her cake on her birthday!!! We might have to hose her off afterwards.