Adventures in Food

Your Dad and I have both discussed that one of our favorite things about being a parent right now is feeding you new foods. You have gnawed on pickles, had mashed potatoes, lentil soup, drank water out of mason jars, and much more. Here are some of your recent adventures in food that I love.

A few weeks ago Restaurant Week occurred in Boise. This is when the upper scale restaurants offer a prix fixe (fixed price) menu that consists of a 2 or 3 course meal. It is a great opportunity to try fine gourmet food for a reasonable price. We decided to go to Red Feather Lounge this year - and we took you with us! This was pretty awesome because people looked at us like "really, they are bringing a baby in here" when we arrived. However you were a complete angel (like we knew you would be) and sat in a booster seat in the booth with us while we ate. You go to eat with us. In fact, now that you are exploring table food you get quite upset if we don't offer you our food... more to come on this in a bit. So, dinner consisted of baked potato soup which you LOVED, sourdough bread, salmon, steak with squash (which you also ate) and a berry cobbler and cheesecake for dessert. You devoured the soup and squash and by the time we got to the hockey game after dinner you had entered a food coma. We laughed as you sat in my lap at the game with your hands on your belly just like an old man does after eating and you literally twiddled your thumbs until you fell asleep.

Fast forward to last night... you have had sweets before but never like this. Whole Foods opened in Boise this week and your Dad and I were VERY excited to go since we have had a love affair with this since we visited places like Vegas and went. We ended up getting many delicious foods, but the highlight was a huckleberry chantilly cake. Last night we ate it and gave you a few bites. We have never seen you so excited to have food. You were literally lunging at your Dad to give you bites of this cake as you babbled and grinned with every bite. It was very adorable. You just might be a foodie like your Mom and Dad. We have given you so many different types of food and to date there hasn't been one that you wouldn't eat. Oh, and I might have just found your first birthday cake if I can recreate it.

Then today I was eating a cookie. As I was eating it you looked at me longingly saying "are you going to share with me?" in your eyes. However this wasn't a cookie that I could safely share with you, so I finished it. As I put the last bite in my mouth you dropped your head and started to cry, very upset that I didn't share. I immediately cheered you up with a banana that we shared.

I'm sure there will be many more food experiences, and we look forward to them!