Ugh... I think it is the pregnancy hormones or something but I feel like I just can't win tonight! First let me tell you what my typical evening is like... I aim to have dinner at 6:30 so that dh, dd and I can eat as a family. I have been more and more trying to cook one meal for the entire family and it is actually working for the most part. However, dd is clinging, whining, crying and underfoot most of the time I am cooking. It is incredibly frustrating! On top of that, this evening she would not eat ( 2 bites of carrots and two bites of beans) and I am certain she was hungry, just not liking what I made this evening. She kept signing "eat" and I told her to eat what was on her plate. No go... so I put her down. She took her sippy of milk with her, drank quite a bit and then pulled the let the milk all run out of your mouth trick. I firmly said, "Kyra! We drink our milk, we do not spit it on the floor." She threw her milk cup down at that point. A few minutes later, she got back up and ate a few more bites of beans. I got out plums for dessert. She proceeded to try a few, and squeeze one to juice while trying to demand another (apparently she thought the others might taste different). I had had it. I took her to the sink, rinsed her off and sent her off to play with her daddy. She was very whiney and crying and I was certain she was hungry. I gave her a bed time snack after bath (about 45 minutes after the dinner antics, which she inhaled because as I was sure... she was hungry. The whole time, I just wanted to burst into tears. I am trying to start good family eating habits (I will never force her to eat) by not being a short order cook and it is rare that she eats nothing at a meal. Tonight just felt awful. I knew she was hungry, but I didn't want to give her a whole other meal. I have to figure out a way to keep my emotions out of meal time. Somehow I feel like failure if I make a meal that she won't touch. Thank goodness, most nights are better than this. I hope that this isn't the start of a nightmare!
