I wanted to make Summit eggs for breakfast, now, let me clarify that I make eggs all the time for him. and they are good about 30-40% of the time. Whatever, he usually eats them though. Today however, I decided to be “sneaky” and add some Gerber spring vegetables. I didn’t make this puree obviously, but the author said that baby food was good in a pinch. I decided to wing it and not look at a recipe. (I mean, how hard can it be?) After I cooked the eggs I added a couple of dollops, yes, dollops, of the baby food and smeared them into the eggs and then realized that I like salt on my veggies to make them taste better, and since baby food is so bland I went ahead and sprinkled a fair amount of salt. I then cleverly topped all of it with cheese and presented my masterpiece to Summit. He clapped in anticipation. I then took a bite to see if it was cool enough. BLAAAH! Too much veggie goo and waaaaay to much salt. Geez. I hoped that this was just a salty spot and managed to find a bite for Summit that wasn’t too bad. The next bite however had too much veggies- I knew that but hoped he wouldn’t. He didn’t break eye contact with me and just opened his mouth and let the food fall out of it. He was losing patience with me. I started scraping cheese and veggie goo off the eggs because of the overwhelmingly vegetable-salt taste and I had to literally pull apart the rest of the eggs and taste them before giving him a scrap of a bite. I had made 3 eggs and he maybe got 1/2 of an egg. He was getting frustrated and when I finally gave up and started to throw the eggs away he screamed so I let him have one more bite and he turned his head away and wouldn’t acknowledge me. So down the drain they went.
and can I just say writing this out- what really happened is just really embarrassing and so typical?
so how about cereal? I get some cheerios out for him to munch on and he cautiously ate a couple but he doesn’t really like them so… he threw them on the floor. I put some in a bowl with milk thinking he may like that. He took a couple small bites and then let all the milk slowly dribble out his mouth while giving me a sarcastic look. Strike two.
I had two frozen waffles left in the freezer so I took them out and forgot how to make them. What I SUPPOSE to do since they are home-made is de-thaw them in the microwave then cook them a little in the toaster until crispy. I just popped them directly in the toaster. and burnt them. For real. I apologized profusely to Summit and soaked the waffles in syrup. I carefully scraped off the burnt as good as I could. Summit let him feed him several bites but by this time he was tired of all of this so he just wanted down. I didn’t blame him. I told him I’d make it up to him at lunch which probably means I need to take him out to lunch and not make him suffer through another one of my meals.