"I Hate Fruit"

Below is a video of John refusing to try peaches. I have made no progress in encouraging him to eat fruit. He had been indicating that he was hungry for solids--as he asks for food at least half a dozen times per day now--so I sat him in his booster chair and offered him peaches. Note that he first makes the thhhbbbt sound with his tongue, which is how he indicates "yucky" and generally applies only to trash and Mama and Daddy's morning coffee. He won't even try the peaches, but he knows they are yucky. Then he "cries" and tries to go limp to fall out of the chair. He bangs his head which is his sign for I HAVE AN OWIE. Then he makes the sign for DOWN to get me to take him out of the chair. It's like this pretty much each time I offer him food that isn't a starchy carbohydrate. I'll just keep offering cheerfully . . .

In the same sitting I offered apple slices with peanut butter. John decided he liked the peanut butter straight off of his fingers and ate about a tablespoon of it.

On an unrelated note, John has become especially taken lately with "vroom vrooms" (cars and trucks). He comments on them when he sees them (especially big/loud trucks), he likes to sit at our third story window and peer down at the vehicles coming and going, and he actually asks to go in the "vroom vroom" (go for a car ride). So cute!