Friday, May 22, 2009

Rookie Dad: Will that leave a stain?


The second "solid" food in The Youngling's new diet has been squash. Yep, those tiny tubs of pureed food at the price of 2/$1 are her favorite thing in the whole world. The only problem is that, just like the rice cereal which she now despises, she can't quite swallow everything which leaves pureed, watery squash slowly creeping down her tiny chin on to her tiny bib with more than enough squash making its way behind the bib and on to her once clean clothes.

I suppose my first mistake is consistently dressing her in white shirts in the morning which begs this question: why do the Chinese clothes manufacturers feel the need to even manufacture white clothes for kids? Kids of any age are messy. At best, 40% of the food destined for their mouth actually enters the mouth and stays there.

I just hope that squash doesn't stain because as I took over supper feeding duties last night for the first time this week, this dirty dad wasn't paying close enough attention and The Youngling has added some lovely orange splotches to her nearly new jammies.

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