Appetizer | 2010

For the longest time, Mum had been coaxing Jakjak into eating to make him, well, look healthier. He is healthy, mind you, it's just when you look at our sizes, he seems a bit underwhelming. The problem we found with Jakjak is that he eats only what he wants to eat at a certain time. He eats most of anything, in his own time. And when he wants to eat, he really wants to eat. Lately, he's been chomping his way on late night dinners and milk before going to bed (that's dinner at 11 PM!).

Of course, as with most of anything that we allow him to do, we still need to watch what he eats. The way we are now, and the problems that we have (high cholesterol, high blood pressure, etc.), we believe it prudent that Jakjak learns which foods are good for him and which are not. Thankfully, he likes what we give him (most of the time) and is easy to teach and control. We let him have his way as long as he has eaten healthy at least 70% of his total intake.

One problem that we have always assumed to be the cause of Jakjak's non-capacity to gain weight is his over-hyper-dooper-active lifestyle. When he's not sleeping, he's talking. When he's not talking, he's playing with his toys. When he's not playing with his toys, he's running around like a headless chicken trying to juggle a gazillion things at the same time.


At the very least, we are now happy with his eating habits. It took a while to get him to eat right, but a little bit of persuasion from Mum and Dad helped. We taught him how to cook (by engaging his help while Mum is cooking), we taught him how to make sandwiches (the messy kind), we had him help make pancakes (after which the kitchen looks like snow city) and just ask him to be there while we eat. Of course, now he has his own toy stove with a complete set of pans, a tea party set, an ice cream maker and a bunch of Japanese style miniature food replicas. Girl stuff? Nah, chefs are men with balls after all.