YUM-O

I wish that I could take credit for being mother-of-the-year because I got Bobby to eat a new food that is way, way, way out of his normal food selections.  But alas, I can take zero credit.  Bobby picked up a lo mein noodle off of his dad's plate and ate it.  He reached down, got another and ate it too.  Simple as that??!!??  He showed an interest in the lo mein while we were having it with our Chinese take-out dinner the previous evening, but didn't actually chew and swallow the noodles.  Why he decided to actually put it in his mouth and eat it when Bob heated up leftovers the next day is an answer that I will never have.

This food choice really shocks me because Bobby has never been a pasta eater, even as a toddler before his food selectivity began.  No spagetti, no ramen noodles...he never even showed an interest.  The foods that he has eaten out of the blue in the past few months have been things that he has previously eaten well in his life.

Since he took a couple of bites off of Daddy's plate, I got out the container of veggie lo mein and heated up Bobby a plate.  This time I even remembered to give him a fork.  While I stood there with my mouth gaped open watching him actually eat these noodles and I was smiling from ear to ear watching him try to use a fork.  It was like watching a toddler, after all, Bobby never learned this skill as a toddler.  I had to grab my camera and snap away...

He ate the noodles until all of the remaining ones had veggies wrapped around them.  I then took each noodle and ran it through my fingers so that they would be "clean" and then he finished them.  Oh what we moms do to get our kids to eat!!!  Hopefully this was not a one time only thing.  Can't wait to see if any other new foods interest him soon!!!

A Halloween Miracle

Halloween is not big on Bobby's priority list.  In fact, every year we seem to celebrate less and less.  He got two costumes to choose from this year from the Stepping Stones costume giveaway and he chose...NEITHER!!!  He put one on for 20 seconds before he took it off.  Alright Bobby, Mommy gets it, no costume!!  I did get him a cute (rather, SCARY, ohhhhhhhh) shirt to be Bobby's costume for school...

He's so scarrrrrrrrry!!!!!!!!!

We attempted to go to the PlayWorks special needs Halloween party.  Bobby was not in to it in the least!!!  He ran right through the playroom and stayed in the back room and looked out the window...

 Obviously the party wasn't the Halloween miracle, so we left.

When we got home I had to do it, one of my least favorite things; however, it has been such a big struggle every morning when we are getting ready for school.  I had to cut off Bobby's beautiful hair.  I love it the length that it was in the previous picture.  He doesn't love getting it washed (takes too much water to rinse it out), he won't let me wet it down in the morning, so we have to wash it every morning before school.  He also hates having it combed.  This wasn't the big miracle either.  I buzzed it, but he wouldn't let me go back over it and get the little stragglers.  Oh well, my cold was getting worse and I really didn't care.

I had some pumpkins at home in my fall decorations, so I brought one inside so that we could carve it into a Jack 'O Lantern.

Smells good!

Giving the pumpkin a kiss.

Glad that Mommy got all of the goo out of there.

I decided to take Bob's drill and make some holes instead of carving a face.  Yeah, my I could have cared less by this point, I just wanted to lay on the couch and rest from my crazy cold.

I got up and made some dinner.  Bobby had already had his dinner by the time that Bob and I ate.  So,   I made our plates and we sat in front of the TV to eat our dinner since I didn't feel well.  Yes, this is where the Halloween miracle happened.  Bobby came over and stood by me, reached down and picked up a green bean off of my plate and ate it like it was no big deal.  He reached down got two more and ate those, reached down got a few more and ate those.  Bob and I sat there literally with out mouths open while Bobby ate some more green beans.  I went to the kitchen and put some green beans on Bobby's plate...

After he finished the one's on his plate, he got the bowl and ate some more.  Now, you have to understand that Bobby does not eat food that is not hard and crunchy with the exception of bread.  He has not eaten a vegetable in at least 4 years.  We were SPEECHLESS and JUMPING FOR JOY!!!!!  Hopefully he will eat them again (I stopped on my way home and bought some more!!).  But in Bobby's World, this is truly a Halloween miracle!!!!!!!