Breakfast

Luke and Andrew have been eating oatmeal almost every morning since they were babies. It is supposed to be great for cholesterol and high in soluble fiber, so I figured I should get them used to eating it while they're young, and that way they will always eat it. This concept has really worked and they LOVE their oatmeal. Every morning, they have "lots of brown cheerios (multigrain), lots of milk, and lots of plain cheerios"

then they excitedly await their oatmeal with different fruits each day.

Bananas and raisins.

applesauce.

strawberries and bananas

peaches and bananas (current favorite)

blueberries

So although they eat the same thing every day, the fruit makes it exciting.

The other exciting part of their oatmeal is their SPOONS.

About a year ago, the boys (especially Luke at the time) started wanting a "baby spoon" with which to eat his oatmeal.

This was a true BABY spoon. The kind you use when a baby is FIRST learning to eat solids. So it is VERY tiny, and takes about three times as long to eat breakfast.

Then he started wanting two baby spoons, which was fine.

Andrew followed suit and pretty soon wanted 3, 4, 5, 6 spoons to eat his oatmeal. It was beginning to get out of control, so I finally set a rule. ONLY 2 SPOONS each day!

They both were fine with this idea, and always made sure they alternated bites, giving each spoon a fair share.

Luke now uses a wider baby spoon with holes in it, and an "orangish-red (really orange, but since red is his favorite color, and we don't have one in red, orange is the closest to red so it has become "orangish red") tiny baby spoon. He is VERY attached to these spoons and will usually have a meltdown if they are not washed and ready to go in the morning.

Andrew on the other hand isn't attached to any particular spoon, but rather enjoys a variety of spoons. He seems to choose the most awkward ones - teaspoons, tablespoons, medicine spoons, medicine syringes, spatulas. last week he even tried to use the needle attachment to an air pump for our basketball. I had to draw the line there!

The last couple of days may be my favorite spoon of choice for Andrew -- a ladel. It is not a huge ladel, but the kind you might use for salad dressing. He finally found an awkward spoon that is big enough to actually get some decent bites of oatmeal!