Gag be-gone!

A little background here: Knox has been gagging at everything. It's so frustrating because he's ready for table food: grabbing the spoon, grabbing your plate, watching you eat, etc.

This is how I feel about the situation:

I started him on some Gerber Puffs. Gag.
Stage 3 foods? Gag.
Mum Mum? Gag bigger.... in fact, welcome back up everything he's already eaten for the day. Ew.
The list goes on and on.

Fast forward to Friday afternoon. I pulled Knox's highchair over to the kitchen so his separation anxiety would lessen from me and I'd be 4 ft. from him so I could be allowed to wash dishes sans hysterical screaming.

Enter the 3 year old big brother. I go back to my chores, answer the phone, turn around and Knox has a blue chin:

What. the. hell. I'm perplexed.

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhh yaaaaaahhhhh. I gave Nash a handful of M&Ms. (tap tap tap on the forehead. duh.) And evidently he thought Knox needed to give some a whirl. I can only imagine: "here monkey... have one. der yummy!" After my moment of "ut oh" I stopped long enough to realize he was actually chewing and not gagging. Woooooo Whooooo!!!! Who would've thought Nash was such a good problem solver at 3? I mean, half the time he kid has his finger up his nose. (Well, I guess that's problem solving, huh?)

Ok, true test. M&M again? No gag. How about some peanut butter on a spoon??? (All the while in my head I'm certain he'll gag.) 

Um. No. 

No gagging, but by far VERY interesting, this oddly sticky, tan-colored yummy stuff:

These next few photos crack me up. It was like a switch went off and he couldn't get enough. I just love watching him feel, touch, explore with his fingers. Hilarious that as an adult we would never dig in like this. 

He was so happy and proud of himself. All I can say is....

"Thank you, Nash. Thank you, Boogs. YOU figured out the magical key to unlock the non-gag."

Smiles!

A virtual playdate...and a date with an Aunt. :)

Had to share this. So precious. How much does this child love his Aunt? We call her "Ti Sissy" (a.k.a. Tia Sissy - or Aunt Sissy) and we also love Facetime.  Thank you, Apple.

He's very aware and very fond of Facetime. We facetime with Nana, with our little girlfriends, we facetime with whomever will answer.

Today, "Ti Sissy" answered the call of the Facetime Warrior and was then on the phone with Nash for upwards of 30+ mins. Hi-lar-i-ous.

Here's a little diddy play-by-play of their date:

It's important to offer your guests something to eat while they are visiting.

Maybe some pizza?

"Which slice would you like?"

 "Maybe you'd like suga all ober ur face?"

"Sit here Ti Si, I need to show you sumpin."

"Nook. I see you."

These are the last few minutes of enjoyment before she hung up and he went into FULL TILT hysteria that he wanted his Ti Sissy... tears... hyperventilating... coughing.

..........So post, this post, I got an email from my sister. Evidently, this was her view of the evening playdate:

*view from her ipad. :) LOVE!!!!