An experiment

Yesterday for dinner N had oatmeal with pear and pineapple, green beans, and water. (Plus a bottle - don't freak out baby feeding Nazis. He just gets his bottle after all his solids are done. During dinner he drinks water from a sippy cup.) He ate everything and seemed to enjoy all of it.

Why is this important?

Today for dinner N had oatmeal with mango, green beans, and water. (Again, plus the bottle.) He did not, however, eat and enjoy everything. Yesterday, every bite was followed by a smile, a coo, or some sort of baby babble. It didn't matter. Whatever we stuck in there was perfectly delicious.

Today, not so much. Oatmeal with mango - totally delicious. Green beans - like acid. His response to green beans - Geez, are we trying to kill me or something? What's with the putting deadly things in my mouth like that? Can't you see I'm going to die if you feed me one more bite of the deadly green beans?

Only in baby land this translates to hysterical crying. I seriously thought he was in some kind of dire pain for the first five minutes of dinner until E realized what was going on. We tried an experiment after getting the little guy to chill out for a second.

We alternated bites of cereal and bites of green beans in varying orders and sequences. He quite certainly melted into hysterics with each bite of green beans, and was totally fine with everything else we offered him.

This may all be normal. Some kids don't like green beans. The real question is why he loved them yesterday?

The kid's fickle.