Huge lunch today!

DJ was eating rather sparsely over the last 4 days, though this wasn't a surprise to us.

A few weeks ago, every meal, he couldn't eat enough (almost). Being a food vacuum is his standard indicator of a growth spurt. After the growth spurt, I noticed his Toddler 2 size shorts are no longer big on him. They are "just right" leaning towards too small! That said, it would be negligent of me not to cite The Shrinking Machine (the dryer, as my mother calls it) as a contributor to the small size of DJ's shorts (and clothes in general), but The Shrinking Machine alone cannot account for shrinking speed...

Anyway, after DJ goes through the food vacuum stage, he then goes through the super-model diet stage, being picky and eating very little in general. That's where we are now. We figure he self regulates well enough, so we don't worry about it and simply prepare less food at each meal.

This morning, DJ only wanted Kix cereal ("in a bowl") for breakfast. Turning down "can cakes" (pancakes) or waffles is non-existent so when he turned down both, I didn't think anything of it since he's on the super-model diet. But he kept asking for more and more Kix, eating a total of 3 whole bowls before I stopped him. Granted Kix are mostly air and don't fill up anyone, but I should have figured that lunch would mean he'd be starving.

At noon, I asked DJ if he was interested in some lunch, and he answered yes right away. I gave him a list of things from which to choose: hot dog, ham, cheese, roast beef, quesadilla. He picked ham at first, and then he said quesadilla. Ok, I thought, I'll put a little ham in his quesadilla.

Little did I know just how hungry he was. Besides his immediate want to get into his high chair, I couldn't make the quesadilla fast enough. He ate the entire ham and cheese quesadilla, then asked for ANOTHER quesadilla. I suggested ham and cheese instead, and he ate another half a slice of ham and a full slice of cheese. At this point, I offered him a banana. He ate the whole thing. Then I offered him a peach. He ate all of that, too. And then he had two small helpings of Nilla Wafers Minis, and a whole cup of milk. Hello hollow leg for food.

Elektra was not to be outdone. She had Cheerios, a half a slice of ham, she shared my stuffed pepper filling, some roasted bell pepper, a bowl of yogurt, and two and a half ounces of water from her sippy cup. In fact, she was fussing in her high chair - despite having Cheerios to keep her busy - because DJ had his sippy cup and she didn't. She quieted down immediately upon receiving her sippy cup of water.

We spent an hour eating lunch together. Now the kids are playing and will be going down for naps in about 20 minutes or so. I'm hoping they'll sleep like rocks since they ate so well!!