15 month check

Weight: 20 lb, 8.9 oz (15%)
Height: 31 1/4 inches (85%)

Sadie's a Skinny Minnie.  It's actually amazing how MUCH she can eat, but she's still rather picky with WHAT she eats.  Currently, she eats a mixture of regular food and baby food.  Baby foods are mostly: rice & lentils, sweet potato cinnamon (still her favorite), corn & butternut squash, and turkey & vegetable dinner.  We combine the baby food with white or brown rice, tofu, and natto for dinner and most lunches.   She also eats a variety of fruits (loves papaya, avocado, strawberries), oatmeal, bread, and cereal, but about 90% of the time she refuses to eat meat & chicken.  Sounds so healthy right?....well as it turns out......it is TOO healthy!  Her refusal to eat meat, in conjunction with her cow's milk allergy results in a relatively LOW-FAT diet, which is NO GOOD for a growing toddler!  So.....Dr. Tim Sing instructed us to "up the FAT!"....McDonald's here we come, j/k!  Oddly enough, she even recommended adding butter into her food once a day!  Apparently, fat is essential to building a healthy neurons for your nervous system, so it is now my mission to fatten her up and put her back into the 20th percentile or higher by her next office visit.

1/4 - Forgot to put the butter in her dinner, so I cut a slice to see if she would even TRY it....never would have guessed that the girl could eat it as if it were a slice of cheese.  She LOVED it, even cried when it was gone!  This is too easy!  Bad part though was that it did cause a slight rash around her mouth after :(

1/5 - Banana and butter....gobbled it up

1/7 - Rice, butter, and natto....loved it

1/8 - Daddy does not like giving her butter, convinced mommy that cheese and peanut butter are better alternatives.  :)  Will try it out and make a conscious effort to give her more fatty foods while keeping it healthy as well.