3 Posts in 1 - Milk, Ice Cream and Ponies

This post is probably going to be long, but I tell myself I'm too lazy to do 3 separate blog posts in one day :)


Post #1
We decided today to give Ethan some whole milk for the very first time. At first he was quite excited to get a bottle, but confused because he never gets a bottle at home, especially from me!

He took maybe one or two tentative sips, but quickly lost interest as he realized it was not mommy milk in there! He proceeded to fling the bottle around, spraying drops of milk everywhere, at which point I took over and tried to get him to take the bottle. There was crying, struggling, covering his mouth, batting the bottle away, hitting the bottle - after 10 looooooonnnnnnngggggg minutes of this, I gave up and breastfed him. He was okay with mixing the whole milk into his cereal, but when it's milk for the sake of milk time, only mommy's best will do ;)


Side note - we did give him a little bit of soymilk in a sippy cup and he was a little more interested in that, but only by a few sips.


Post #2
Generally we try to feed Ethan healthy, mostly homemade foods - none of the crappy toddler meals that they sell. Ethan is a very good eater - lots of fruit, veggies, nothing has to be dumbed down for him - he'll even happily eat things with large amounts of hot sauce! 


Anyways, one of Chris and I's favorite places in Geneva is Graham's - known for great chocolates and great ice cream. We got one big scoop to share, and as you can see below, Ethan was quite happy when it was his turn to have a bite!

Today's flavor was chocolate! Can't wait until he's a little bit older and can share mommy's personal favorite - chocolate peanut butter cookie dough :)


Post #3
So continuing the downtown Geneva adventure...


Today was the Festival of the Vine - not really sure why  Geneva has this festival since last I checked, Geneva really isn't located in wine country...but it was an excuse to go and look around, etc, etc.


While we were eating our ice cream outside Graham's, I happened to look across the street and noticed there were pony rides. I told Chris that I wanted to go see how much the rides were, and if they weren't too expensive (we only had about $4 in cash between the 2 of us), get Ethan a pony ride :) Happily the pony ride was free, so we waited our turn in line, and plopped Ethan's adorable little butt on a pony.

He mostly liked it, except the end, where he started whining a little and the pony ride guy kept saying "one more round", but we kept walking and walking...


He really did like it after I took him off the pony and he got to pet it :) 


And that concludes our very exciting day!