Cinnamon!

I applied my inner foodie to the issue of eating and came out smelling like... well, like cinnamon!

I was feeding May oatmeal yesterday and she was eating, but without a lot of enthusiasm. (Apple sauce had been met with gagging and spitting and looks of dismay.) Doing the whole "Look, Mommy likes it!" routine, I got a mouthful of her food.

Is there any food more boring than plain oatmeal? Library paste has more flavor. Seriously. I've eaten library paste (on a dare in the third grade) and it's got more flavor.

Staring at this lumpy bowl of blandness, I thought "I need to make this better." My usual oatmeal accoutrements are cream, honey, and a big dash of cinnamon. Also, like any other grain, oats taste better salted.

Well, babies can't have salt. Or sugar. Or honey. Or cream.

But they can have cinnamon!

Or, at least, none of my books say they can't have cinnamon. So cinnamon it was and she ate quite a bit more than she'd been eating before.

Next, I'm going to get better tasting applesauce. My god, what if they made the applesauce out of Macintosh. Or worse, red delicious.

Next, nutmeg on the rice cereal.