Terrible Mom Tuesday ...

Okay, so let's start with the subject of solid (baby) foods.  They are NOT my favorite.  Why?  Because my child is a gagger.  If he doesn't like something?  He gags.  If it's a new flavor he's not used to?  He gags.  If he REALLY wants you to know he doesn't like it, he full on throws up.  Followed by dry heaving/gagging.  Lovely.  And this is a LITTLE frightening for a momma who already worries/freaks out/has panic attacks about any little thing that doesn't seem like the norm.  Another thing he didn't like (at first, but this was because he was 5 months old and not really comfortable sitting up yet) was the highchair.  Like full on screamed, bowed his back and went into what I like to call "plank pose".  SO, for this reason we fed him for a few months in his bouncy seat.  This weekend I finally decided that it was time to upgrade to his highchair, otherwise he'd be seven years old and we'd be dragging his bouncy seat into restaurants, putting it in the booth and feeding him chips and salsa.  It started out fine but then when it came time to eat the plank poses/noises only dogs could hear started to come.  So, I did what any other mom would do with no other options left - dragged his highchair in front of the TV, turned on a recorded episode of Wonder Pets and distraction fed as FAST as I could.  And hallelujah (angels singing).  No gagging.  No dry heaving.  No choking.  Actually completely the opposite, he ate EVERYTHING.  Both his veggie and his fruit.  And even opened his mouth wide like a baby bird in a nest waiting on his momma to bring him food.  Praise the Lord!  There you have it.  Proof we have a dramatic child.  I don't know WHERE he could've gotten that from ... (crickets chirping ...)

This brings me to the title of this post.  Terrible mom.  I'm officially the worst mom ever.  I feed him in front of the TV.  But you know what?  You do what you have to to get the job done.  And what's gonna work?  "TEAM WORK!" (if you don't feed your child in front of Wonder Pets, you won't get that)  Oh, another thing he does that I forgot to mention that is SUPER cute when his mouth isn't full of bananas, carrots or cereal ...

Yup.  Blow raspberries.  Which, like I said, is SO cute (and MIGHT be encouraged a LOT) when his mouth isn't full of food.  When it is?  Momma gets an unplanned baby food bath.  Gross.  Oh and yes, that's a towel bungee corded to the back of the chair.  It's the Mister's solution to the fact that every time we'd put C in his highchair and he went into plank pose he'd slam his head into that slat on the back of the chair which, as you can imagine, does NOT help in getting him to want to stay in his highchair.  So a big thank you to daddy for figuring that out by bein' all manly n' stuff.  He wanted to use duct tape (insert man grunt here) instead of the bungee cord but I veto'ed that in about 5.2 seconds. 

On another gagging note, did anyone see the Bachelorette last night?  Don't you KNOW Ashley HAS (I think I capitalize and use italics too much ...) to be cringing every time she watches herself make these RIDICULOUS comments regarding Bentley and her "being in a dark place" or him "being the one".  Ugh, I know I was.  Gag me with a spoon.  Yes, I just said that.  It's hard for me to have any sympathy for the girl when she was warned.  And now, I will stop talking about her like I know her or like this is important.  I can FEEL the Mister's eyes rolling out of his head.

Happy Tuesday y'all!