carnivore

Ada has a pretty steady diet of Mac-n-Cheese, pasta with butter and cheese - or pasta with cheese on top as Ada refers to it, chicken nuggets, mashed potatoes, and every once in a while a grilled cheese sandwich. You will notice that each of these items are heavily laden with carbs. Girl likes her carbs.

Well this weekend we went to a BBQ at a friend's house and since Ada had just woken up from a nap she was pretty hungry. Instead of allowing her to go straight to the pink cookies that Auntie Julie had so kindly picked up for her, we decided to try to get Ada to eat some real food. She was strangely drawn to the plate of freshly grilled hamburger patties, so we put together a burger with lots and lots and lots of ketchup. And to my surprise she actually willingly ate about a third of the hamburger!! Our little carb-o-holic had willingly taken in a whole mouthful of protein. Shhh - we don't want that little secret to get out.

As luck would have it our Sunday also turned out to be a mess of poorly timed naps that resulted in a ravenous Ada after our hockey games. So we decided to stop at Wendy's on the way home for one of our three fast food meals of the year. We asked Ada if she wanted chicken nuggets, a hamburger, or a cheeseburger. Her response - CHEESEBURGER - as if she had had more than six bites of red meat her entire life. So we got her a cheeseburger and she wolfed down half of the burger delighting in each bite as if she was actually eating chocolate. This opens a whole new world for Elliot. I am the fast food Nazi in our house - I don't like it and it does not like me - so Elliot usually only gets to indulge in his favorite fast food joints when I'm either so worn down I give in or more likely I'm out of town. Now that Ada is on board I'm now officially out numbered. My arteries are already shaking.