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As you’ll hear repeatedly throughout these postings, we take our food seriously.  I am small, but I can eat.  My kids are smaller, and they can outeat me.  We need 3 square meals a day minimum and if a meal is skipped… well, you’d know ahead of time because we will LET you know in a not-so-pleasant manner.  And if we’re tired and hungry, all I can say is RUN!  This whole food/sleep issue, of course, perplexes G, who can survive on 1 meal a day and 5 hours of sleep a night.

Big Mochi eats anything.  If it resembles food, she’s on it.  She eats first, then asks what it is.  Due to her severe allergies (that’s a whole ‘nother Oprah for some other day) she is restricted, but anything she CAN eat, she does.  The only thing I can think of that she doesn’t eat is chocolate.  Go figure.  If you are in the kitchen preparing food, she is right next to you waiting for a handout.  It is amazing how well she eats.  More amazing is that she loves spinach, olives, green salad, oatmeal, and pretty much anything healthy.  Easiest baby when it comes to food. 

Baby Mochi tends to be pickier, but she has no trouble eating her weight in what she likes.  What she doesn’t like, she is quick to let you know as it is thrown violently on the floor, oftentimes followed by a deep breathy NOOOO!  Lately, she’s learned to follow her big sister in the kitchen to get handouts as well.  Since she doesn’t speak that well yet and has been trained to sit before she eats, I sometimes find her sitting on the middle of the kitchen floor waiting.

You can always tell after my mochis have finished eating.  They are animated, energized and have the biggest smiles pasted on their faces as they play.  For them, life doesn’t get better than a full tummy.  G will no doubt tell you I’m the same way.