Spaghetti

Caleb has been on what you may call an eating strike lately. If
it isn't crackers, cheese, or some type of fruit, nine times out of
ten he won't touch it. I mean he won't even pick it up or dare to
taste it. It makes meal time hectic (which explains why his eyes
are glued to the TV during dinner time on this evening) and
very frustrating.

Anyways, I end up giving him one thing at a time...usually some
type of veggie, then meat, followed by pasta or bread. He might
take one bite if I'm lucky. On this particular evening we started
with mixed veggies. No luck. Then I gave him some of the salad
that I was eating, salad that one month ago he would have
gobbled up. Again, no luck. Next it was pizza. He ate the black
olives off the top, but flat out refused to taste the actual pizza.
At this point I'm really getting frustrated so I put in Laurie
Berkner while I tried to find something in the fridge he'd eat. I find
some left over mac and cheese, the same mac and cheese that
he loved the day before. Won't even look at it. (Seriously- he
turned his head!) As a last resort, I heat up some spaghetti
noodles with butter...something he usually refuses to eat. And,
imagine that...he loved it.

I think he is teaching me patience.