As I have mentioned before, Claire loves to eat. I will now expand on this, as it is something I want to remember. Well, I don't know if I can forget, but I may forget how much food meant to her in her early years. I am assuming of course that she will outgrow this. Let's hope so.
First off, Claire did not have real food until she was about 11 months old. In China she was only given formula, and when we adopted her at 10 months we had to start introducing baby food to her slowly. You would think this would make her a picky eater, right. Wrong. This girl loves everything. This is the good part of her love of food. At an early age she could handle the spiciest of foods. She is still at 4 willing to try any food you put in front of her and likes most of it. She will ask to try a food we are eating that she doesn't know what it is. Since my boys have never asked or wanted to try anything new besides a dessert, I assume she is unique. The food she doesn't like right now: banana and tomato. That's it...seriously.
OK, for the annoying part of her love of food. She wants to eat ALL the time. Food is never to far from her mind. And it is not like she doesn't eat a lot already. She can eat all of us under the table at a meal. I am not kidding. The girl can eat. But no matter how much she puts away at lunch she is asking 10 times when snack time is, and then dinner. When she sees anyone eat something she makes a bee line for them and asks for a bite or just stares at you. It is a challenge for me to not get upset about this as children asking for food is a pet peeve of mine. Carter and Jared don't have this gene and so it is new for me with her. I am trying.
The one up side with her obsession with food is we always have the perfect punishment when she needs one. No dessert just about does her in. It makes an affect. But she is a good little girl and will remind us that she is not allowed dessert that night when we forget, which almost makes me want to give it to her anyway. Almost.
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