Garcon!

My son, Thomas, will surely be a food critic.
For someone who gets a majority of his calories from one source--milk--and still refuses to chew, he has a remarkably discerning palate. But more than that, he has a process.

It goes something like this:

• I put food on spoon and bring it close to his mouth.
• His mouth doesn't open. The spoon hovers in front of it.
• He examines what is on the spoon (sometimes cross-eyed for effect).
• He looks up at me. Often, he just laughs outright. As in: "Are you nuts?"
• But sometimes, he will look up and not laugh. This brings us to...
  
• ... the nose butt. Thomas will take his nose and mash just the tip of it into what is on the spoon. He'll do it once, twice, sometimes even 3 times if that is required. I suppose he's smelling it.
  
• Then, and only then, he may decide to open his mouth.

But even after all this, sometimes he just gags it up anyway. Sigh.
We have had a few minor victories of late: both boys and Anna will munch on Veggie Booty and rice cakes (OK, the apple cinnamon kind but still). Jack is generally OK with the whole trying to chew thing, but neither of them is overly interested in picking things up off the tray. And certainly nothing that is wet, or cool, or squishy. Which strangely seems to rule out most fruits and vegetables...

Thomas also loves to throw Legos.