What Do You Like on Your Hamburger

Noah is the pickiest eater in the world. He has never liked vegetables even mixed with pasta. At 11 months he could isolate a pea from a mouthful of food and manage to spit it out. Zuchinni the same. He has gained 7 pounds since being 8 months old (for those of you not good at math that is 22 months).

Tuesday we had hamburgers for dinner. Nice hamburgers with onions, mushrooms and swiss cheese on the grill. I assembled hamburgers for everyone and Noah decided that today he was going to be on a ketchup strike. One thing I have learned from being the mother of a two year old is always ask before doing something because the smallest thing can turn into a melt down. I asked if he wanted ketchup on his burger he said no. I put it on there a little anyhow and hid it. I gave him some potatoes and put some ketchup on his plate and put it in front of him. BOOM...Meltdown. Brian quickly scrapped the ketchup off the plate and the crisis was resolved. Noah started to take the bun off the burger. He did and played with it and then said "pbutter....pbutter". I thought to myself surely he is not saying peanut butter. I stared at Brian. "Pbutter....Pbutter". Brian and I again looked at each other puzzle. We told Noah to show us and he pointed at the cabinet. Brian brought him to the cabinet and lifted him up. He opened that cabinet and surely enough grabbed the peanut butter. We sat him back at the table with a kid's knife thinking he would put it on the bread and eat it. WRONG. He smeared that "pbutter" all over the burger. Put the top back on and ate it.

DISGUSTING! Especially to I who HATES PBUTTER! However, I did smile. Only a 2 year old and hey at least he ate some protein.