Got Milk?

File under, don't forget to check for the obvious solution Mama! Two days ago I gave Emmy her milk in the morning. She took a sip then threw it down. No big deal. But she continued to reject it through out the day. Again, no big deal. Emmy certainly keeps us on our toes with her culinary-whims. Cheese is a good example. In the beginning of her life with us, she LOVED cheese slices (the individually wrapped kind). She ate them and squealed with happiness when I took one out of the fridge. Then one day, the cheese slice was on the floor. Next, one of her grandmas gave her a cheese cube and this was a big hit. I promptly changed cheese slices to cheese cubes on my grocery list. Then came the dark day when I saw the first cheese cube fly across the kitchen. No more cubes for Emmy. Out of desperation I cut the cube into a triangle hoping to tempt her pallet. Nope, no good. She knew a triangle was just a cube in disguise.

So I wasn't too worried about the milk issue. Until day two. She took a sip and threw it down. I know all moms worry, but I like to think I'm extra good at it. I immediately pictured her calcium deprived body, colorless and listless. I started to think of all the other calcium sources I could force feed her to make up the deficit. I even went to the cabinet to see if we had any formula left. As I was preparing to give her an extra dose of vitamins (just in case she was already careening toward malnutrition) I had a thought; maybe something is wrong with the milk? I picked up the sippy cup and took a drink...I threw it down! It was soured beyond belief. I looked at the jug and it had expired the day before I had purchased it.

Now my mind race back in time to how many sips of the spoiled milk I had "encouraged" her to try the day before. Even though she kept throwing it down, she would try it each time. Fortunately she didn't look ill, and I decided to relax about the whole thing. Of course, I still planned to return it to the grocery and yell at them for poisoning my child. After a few hours passed, I just poured it down the drain. Time to move on to a new motherhood experience.