Milk

Each time Fiona has had a cold she's lost interest in dairy. And each time she got healthy she'd go right back to chugging her milk down first thing in the morning and right before dinner.

Not any more.

Yes, we're currently in a milk-rejection phase. We've tried leaving it our all morning for her to try, we've tried putting honey or chocolate syrup in the milk, we've tried putting the milk in a different cup--to no avail.

So we're having to find other methods of making sure she gets enough dairy. Since we also have trouble getting her to sit still in the morning to eat her breakfast (after all, she's just been in bed for 11-12 hours and is ready to run around and play), this leads to the comical sight of us spending many a morning walking around after Fiona with a bowl of yogurt feeding her spoonfuls every time she looks up.

She doesn't resist the yogurt, and we can get her to sit still for lunch and dinner, so I don't think we're forming any bad habits quite yet, but I'm hoping the phase ends sooner rather than later, since I'm not enjoying the "toddler has yogurt on her face and wants to hug my leg but this is my last clean pair of pants and I have to leave for work in 10 minutes" dodge and dart. On the other hand, one of the first things parenthood has taught us is that sometimes you just have to live with going out in public with schmutz on your clothes.