The infamous rogue Botero painting hand has become more medieval Plague art genre versus his usual Botero contemporary art with Hand, Foot, and Mouth Disease in Fall 2021…
- it’s SUPER common in kids, especially those pursuing scholarly efforts at Colegio (school)
- it’s SUPER contagious and Florida, as usual, exploded in an epidemic in Fall 2021
- it can lead to loss of appetite and a preference for soothing, blander, cooler foods due to the presence of mouth sores
So – this week on the menu, that 22.5 month old “bioterrorist” as my best friend deemed him, was eating:
- Plain skinned baked sweet potato
- Kefir, yogurt, cheese, and cottage cheese
- Popsicles, although he hasn’t quite mastered sucking them and not just Pac Man biting them 🧊
- Fruits (non citrus ones)
- Plain bean pasta (Banza) with olive oil
- Plain tofu with olive oil
- Tuna mashed with yogurt / labneh
- Waffles, pancakes, oatmeal
- Almond butter and sunflower seed butter
- Cheerios and milk
- his perpetual obsession, “nanos” [bananas] which he chain smokes (eats) all day (I cut them in half so he winds up eating 1.5-2 whole ones per day)
- Broth
- Ezekiel bread and crackers (Wasa wet with some water)
- He isn’t super into water but is super into stealing my mint tea / Spin Drift and I’ll keep him hydrated no matter what
- Annie’s pizza bagels (yep. Dietitians will keep their kids fed and happy through illness)
Also on the menu: one mom doubling as an octopus juggling 600 things this week, and slathered in colloidal oatmeal cream / Dessitin. Grateful he is okay and just now slightly bothered by his “cola” (tush) he keeps pointing to.