just wait til you have kids .....

so this is what they mean -


I am a picky eater, anyone who knows me knows I am a picky eater.... I wouldn't say I am the pickiest eater (so I don't like ground meat, or really meat in general, and I won't eat chicken off the bone, or chicken that looks funny, I don't like chunky peanut butter, I don't eat seafood at all and I order a grilled cheese at In n Out) I hardly believe I am the World's Pickiest Eater ( oh but wouldn't it be nice to be the world's something even if it was pickiest eater... I should look into that)

ANYWAY ....

I was thinking about how when I was growing up, and probably you have all heard this at one time or another - how whenever you are displaying a possible character flaw, say being a picky eater... someone will say "just wait til you have kids"
people say it all the time- a little girl will talk back to her mom and in response her mom will say "just wait, someday you will have a little girl and she will be 10x's as sassy as you are to me...just wait" and on and on
all my life I have heard people say "just wait til you have kids" pretty much as a response to almost anything

here are some examples:
"I just love staying out til 3am, makes me feel ALIVE"
... "just wait til you have kids"

"sleeping in on Saturdays is awesome - I can stay in bed til 4pm"
..."just wait til you have kids"

"I could never leave the house without showering, putting on makeup, doing my hair, etc."
..."just wait til you have kids"

"I love to travel"
..."just wait til you have kids"

"$400 for a purse is reasonable"
..."just wait til you have kids"


okay so you get the point
BUT ALAS - I think I understand part of this whole - ..."just wait til you have kids"
threat-
I have always been a picky eater and what do you know - I got a picky litter eater in return

Since Ari turned 6 months I have been in a constant battle to get him to EAT - eat anything really
this kid got his first two teeth at 4 months and now he has 10 (that I know of) - chewing is not the issue (although at first I thought maybe it was)
Other moms talk about their babies being so excited for food, finishing the whole jar, crying for more.... NOT my Ari
I have tried everything, baby food, grown up food, feeding him, letting him feed himself, sitting in his high chair, TV on, TV off, sitting on my lap... airplane noises, train noises, making noises like I am enjoying the food way too much, even with holding nursing - EVERYTHING

sometimes he will eat, most times he will not
every once and a while he will eat up whatever we serve him (never a whole jar) and we will get excited and get him another helping- by the time we get back with his second course - well he is done

sometimes he will seem to like a particular food or flavor and we will have a streak of good luck where he might eat two meals in a row and so we will run out and purchase every jar the stores have in that particular flavor- just to return home, fix his next meal and have it rejected

I watch babies at chuch and envy their parents as they give them gold fish and cheerios and fruit snacks and watch the little ones gobble them up - I offer Ari a gold fish and he acts like I have handed him a turd (actually worse then I turd... atleast he tries to play with his turds....)

And don't even get me started with sippy cups - we have tried whole milk, white grape juice, apple juice, sunny delight, water, vanilla rice milk, etc and Ari is completely indifferent about them all ** all juice is watered down of course, what kind of mom do you think I am

We have tried soft sippys, hard sippys, sippys with straws, spill proof sippys, sippys that pour freely (what a mess!!!) bottles (even though it was against everything I believed it - I was desperate- I don't want Ari to wean from breast to bottle, I would rather he go breast to cup...but I am desperate)

No luck with the cups either ... I mean we can get a sip or two but again I watch these other babies drinking out of their cups and I wonder "whats it going to take"

Ari can eat.. he will eat chocolate, and cookies, and tapioca pudding
oh and he will drink - chocolate milk

so it seems I have a picky eater on my hands - guess its poetic justice