With the exception of the time she was sick with a milk protein allergy, Faith has always been a good eater. A double chin like this doesn't just happen without some serious effort.
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| Vintage Faith |
Like most toddlers, Faith has meals where she just picks at her food and ends up just eating something pathetic like half an apple and some milk. More often than not, she can house a serious amount of food.
Faith's food today:
Pre-breakfast: She has Triscuits with me around 7am (morning sickness is back, hence starting the day with crackers)
Breakfast: Buttered waffle and whole milk
Snack: Sliced strawberries and 3 Golden oreos (the cookies are the toll I pay for her good behavior on our 2 mile walk/run outside)
Lunch: 6 inch Subway sub (Italian BMT), Sun Chips, and a chocolate chip cookie.
I started out just giving her half, but she gobbled that down and asked "More?" so she finished off the other half too, except for the pepperoni. Apparently she's not a fan.
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| Mommy, don't hold back on me. I know this isn't half of your sandwich. |
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| Ew, pepperoni? This has to go. |
After all that food (where does she put it all??) she passed out for a 2.5 hour nap. I love when her "big" meal of the day is at lunch because then nap time is so easy. It's like trying to get an adult to nap after Thanksgiving.
Dinner: Plain pasta, apple slices, carrots, and garlic bread. She didn't eat this all (half the pasta and most of the apple), but dinner is often her lightest meal of the day.
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| I'm carb loading for an EPIC tantrum later |
Post dinner snack ("dessert"): Sliced grapes and strawberries
When she's 6 feet tall by 10th grade and asks me "How did this happen??" I'm going to point to my husband and then show her this post and be like "That's how".
The days when Faith cleans her plate are the worst days of Peanut's life.
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| Kid...you're supposed to THROW the food...remember?? |
When I wasn't just sitting in awe of my kid's ability to eat as much as a grown person, I also ran today. This was my best run all week and I have no idea why. It's better to not question these things. I did 2 miles outside and then 3 more on the treadmill during nap time. I actually wanted to keep going, but that seems to bite me in the butt lately so I called it a day there. I'm trying to remember to just be grateful that I can still run at 36 weeks pregnancy and not push my luck (and body) too far.
Just for good measure, let's have one more Vintage Faith double chin picture, mostly because I think it's equally hilarious and adorable:
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| OMG Mommy, this is so embarrassing. |
What is your biggest meal of the day? I actually really enjoy having a huge lunch and then a light dinner, like Faith, but when I run mid-day it doesn't always work out. Ideally, I would have a huge lunch and then a nap, just like Faith. She's a smart cookie.
Some day you're going to regret putting all this information on a public blog.
ReplyDeleteThe Internet never forgets, you goddamn idiot.
Wait, this is online? I thought it was a private diary.
Deletealso - Evelyn has the matching cute pink monkey shirt.
ReplyDeleteFaith loves that monkey shirt and always asks to wear it.
DeleteI'm glad it's not just my kid. She lacks a double chin and fabulous look of surprise though. For the record, I was just saying earlier that the internet never forgets and I'm worried my kid will hate me for having a blog. I'm just gonna show her yours and tell her it could have been much worse.
ReplyDeleteBy the time our kids are old enough to care, they'll be like "Oh, blogging? Did you do that on your typewriter?" and be too cool to read it.
DeleteThey won't even know what a typewriter is.
DeleteNot only does Faith out eat most HLBs, but he also eats better. There wasn't a grain of quinoa to be seen. I'm so proud.
ReplyDelete*she hahahaahahahahahah
Deletecommon mistake.
Deleteso jealous your kid eats. Today my kid ate:
ReplyDeleteBreakfast: milk, attempted to give her oatmeal, rejected. She then proceeded to raid my purse and eat a chapstick.
Snack: two bites of a dried fruit stick thing
Lunch: 1/2 a piece of bread with peanut butter and jam, 5 peas (literally), 3 raisins, milk
snack: snack bag of bits and bites cheddar flavor
Dinner: attempted to give her tomato soup and fried rice, she dumped the rice in the soup and squished it all between her fingers. Offered her yogurt, she thought it was a facial mask and rubbed it all over her cheeks.
Dessert: 10 goldfish pizza flavoured crackers and milk.
DELICOUS!
I'm really impressed that you attempted to give your toddler soup. I haven't been that brave yet :)
Deletechapstick? That sounds like the diet of Kara's eldest daughter, the one before Faith.
DeleteOh my gosh, wait til Faith starts dating. This post is going to be priceless.
ReplyDeleteThe last picture just kills me.
Biggest meal is almost always dinner. I've tried to change that but it actually works well bc I tend to run early...too early to eat beforehand.
Isn't that the whole "how to be skinny" thing, eat your biggest meal at breakfast, then get smaller and smaller? Maybe Faith is channeling her inner HLB now. Dinner is my biggest and best meal, because I love to eat and that's the only one I can sit down and enjoy. My lunch today was half a can of tomato soup and some grapes. Faith's was so much better.
ReplyDeleteFaith is a healthy eating icon.
DeleteYour lunch makes me feel sad inside.
Sadly I usually eat my biggest meal at dinner time. Except on the weekends then it is breakfast with the fam. But they want every meal to be huge on the weekend.
ReplyDeleteLBM barely eats at all. S'ghetti girl lives on snacks and sneaks soda. Yeah, real health nuts I'm raising over here.
Life is one big meal. With breaks for running.
ReplyDeleteQuote of the day!
DeletePurpletoenails - I couldn't have said it better.
ReplyDeleteI think I eat as much as the HLBs combined per day. Please don't write me off as being lame for taking a picture of my lunch - but I took a picture of my lunch yesterday to send to my mum because the "main" part of my lunch was a grilled cheese sandwich and a pickle (ok, 3 pickles) and apparently when I was 4, that is the only lunch that was acceptable to me. I ate it every day for a year. I looked at my plate (which was a large dinner plate) and it was full. So with that - Faith - I challenge you to an eating contest. At lunch though - since we both prefer smaller dinners.
I think my largest meal is usually dinner. That's the only time I get to just sit and eat. Lately the B has been eating 6 meals a day. She has this tiny little belly so I have no idea where it all goes! The toddler stomach must have magical abilities to immediately dissolve and digest food as soon as it enters the mouth.
ReplyDeleteWow, that is impressive and I quite enjoy the alternative title. I eat the most earlier in the day too.
ReplyDeleteMy dad used to tell me I should "eat like a king at breakfast, a prince at lunch and a pauper at dinner" and the guy has been ripped his whole life. Breakfast for him every day for decades has been a massive pot of grits, a couple of fried eggs and a steak. More often than not, his dinner is a bowl of cereal.
ReplyDeleteI'm always so impressed at how much little kids can eat. Where does it go?
I love big breakfasts on the weekend when I have time-- I totally inhaled a bunch of french toast and eggs this morning since I'm on a mini-vacation. Of course, I'm now sitting around and waiting for the beast meal to settle so I can finally go trail running. Didn't quite think that one through :)
ReplyDeleteI never eat breakfast. Lunch starts around noon and I graze until I leave work, so if you tally all that up, lunch probably wins.
ReplyDeleteI'm still laughing at the "Vintage Faith" caption...too cute :-)
ReplyDeleteCameron will eat a "double meat" ham deli round at Subway no problem. I think I'm going to try him on a 6" next time because last time he wanted more. Although the rounds are smaller to handle which is a plus. His largest meal of the day is often lunch too and I prefer my largest meal at lunch. I hate being starving when I get home from work!
All of my meals are big. :) HOW DOES SHE NOT LIKE PEPPERONI!?!?
ReplyDeleteMy husband's just the same as Faith - put enough stuff into his stomach and he falls asleep. It's a useful thing to know when you need a little space.
ReplyDeleteMy kids are both GIANT eaters. My son can outdo my daughter most days and meals, but when it's mac and cheese on the table, she can put both him and me under the table. I can never participate when other moms have the fretful "oh he/she never eats, I don't know where the energy comes from" conversations. I KNOW where the energy comes from. I see it in my grocery bill. :^)
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