I ate the piece of buche de noel.

today zibby woke up around 9ish and handed me the remote and asked me to turn on a show for her (we were all still in bed) which I did, and henry and I kept sleeping for a while more. eventually henry wanted out of bed, so I got up with him and we went in the other room and played puzzles and watched wow wow wubbzy and hung out.

I debated making a green smoothie for myself but ended up snacking on triple chocolate cookies I made the other night and are super delicious. Zibby doesnt usually want to eat right when she wakes up. Around twelvish I was hungry so I started making myself a ham sandwich. I asked zibby if she wanted a turkey sandwich. She came over to the fridge and got out last nights noodles and soup. She asked for a turkey sandwich, noodles, and also a piece of buche noel. I bought a gorgeous buche noel cake at Whole Foods on super sale. She wanted a piece with lots of decor. I put everything on separate plates (her request). After all the cake talk I suspected that she might eat that first and be full, but she sat and had 3 bowls of noodles, then ate half her sandwich, and left the cake on the table, untouched. well, she touched the decor actually and played with some of the frosting leaves. but she didnt eat it.

She also took about a dozen of the cookies into her bedroom and played kitchen with them, but didnt eat more than one or two.

My point is, zibby is give access to all of the food in our house, and I prepare and offer her a variety of things, and she eats a wide variety of them, when she is hungry and when she is hungry for them. I didnt make any kind of deal or comment on her requests for her meal (now, eat all your sandwich before you touch that cake!)

Later in the afternoon she ate freeze dried strawberries, fresh strawberries, that I know of, which she got on her own, and for dinner she had 3 small flour tortillas rolled up with taco meat (no cheese or other toppings) she drank water all day.

Henry had several bites of several cookies (ha!) a couple handful of pretzels when we sat down for lunch, a bite of strawberry, a bite of toast, and nursed whenever he wanted all day long.

the reason I thought Id write this down is lots of people around me are fretting about what their kids eat and when and how and withholding “desserts” or treats and I have found that letting go of all that has really allowed my daughter to follow her own body;s cues. She eats fruits, veggies, chocolate, meat, grains…without me doing anything besides making it available and attractive.

Im watching an advance cd of interviews of the unschooling documentary lee stranahan is making.

and watching sandra talk about food made me think about today and I wanted to share. up till now a lot of my parenting ideas have been theoretical and or Ive read about other people’s results and experiences. I believed what unschooling was doing for their lives, and now I am seeing what its doing in ours. Its cool.

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