Healthy Eating

Ever since Will started school, he has been very cautious about eating healthy foods. Instead of chips with his sandwich he'll ask for carrot sticks and grapes. Isaac is completely opposite. All junk. All the time. He has no interest in healthy foods. If you ask him his favorite food, he proudly replies, "junk." As you can see in the pictures that follow, he was started early on this diet, and he has really clung to it.

Will often asks if something is healthy before he eats it, or which is the healthiest of two options. The other night they were eating pancakes for dinner, and I asked Will if he wanted syrup or sugar (don't scrunch your nose at the idea of sugar on pancakes, it is delicious). Will asked which is healthier. Toughy. Umm...well.... I started to say. But before I could answer Will piped in and said, "I'll have syrup. It comes from trees so maybe that makes it kind of like a vegetable." Boy is he going to be confused when he learns that sugar comes from plants, but that is neither here nor there. I laughed to myself and gave him syrup.

This morning after breakfast, while Isaac eagerly awaited the time to pass so that we could get to school, Isaac told me that now that he is in school he will only have syrup on his pancakes, so he too could be healthier. It's important to be healthy for learning. Only syrup.

Baby steps.