My kid can eat!!!!!

So, since shortly before Jadon's first birthday, we've begun having some issues getting him to eat certain things. Its gotten better, but he still will not eat more than a couple bites of some foods. His favorite foods right now are anything that has to do with fruit, olives, and jelly sandwhiches (we havent given him peanut butter yet.) Usually he will polish off half of a jelly sandwhich like nothing, so I always end up giving him several other things to satisfy his appetite. Today for lunch I decided to make a whole sandwhich and see how much he ate of it. Well, he ate all of it but 2 bites! Yes! So then I gave him about 6 bites of the bean burrito that I was eating... would've given him more, but that was all that was left of it. So I then gave him some diced fruit as well! When he eats things that he likes, he is like a bottomless pit! How does a person that is soooo small, eat soooo much????

My next story is just amazing to me. Jadon makes a filthy at all meals, so we strip him down to his diaper most of the time, and let him make as much mess as he wants. Afterwards though, cleanup is a disaster! He manages to get food all the way to his feet, on his legs, in his diaper, on his back, and then from the chest up he is completely covered in his meal. As we clean him, a good portion of it falls on the floor, so after i'm done cleaning him, I grab a rag, and crawl around on the floor wiping up all the crumbs and mess. Well yesterday I was folding clean towels, and Jadon grabbed one of the clean towels, went over to the linoleum and started "wiping" the floor!!! The amazing thing to me is that he is beginning to comprehend these everyday things now and remember them! It is just so cute! Oh, and he calls our cats "sss." (not like hissing) Pretty much any word that you say that has an "s" in it, he picks up on it right away and says "sss". But today the cats walked by him and he actually called them "sss".

I love being a mom!!!