First Ice Cream

Yesterday was free cone day at Ben & Jerry's. We took a rainy evening outing and both children enjoyed their first ice cream cones. Beatrice knew she would love ice cream... I think she's always known this. I don't even think she needed to see it to know she loved it. She loves all sweets. In fact, her first step was prompted by a coke can in front of her (she still hasn't tried coke, but I'm telling you, she knows where to find sugary things! She is drawn to them.). Nathan has been the opposite. Until just recently he really didn't like any sugary treats. He doesn't like chocolate, he's not a big fan of icing or candy. He turned down his first ice cream cone at about a year old. He spit out gummy candies at a year and a half. Even this Easter he was trying and spitting out various candies at Grammie's house. But how long can a kid really hold out in our culture before we train them to like at least some form of sweets? This winter Nathan discovered that he likes plain sugar cookies and this spring, he's been saying he likes white icing and last night he got a "strawberry pine cone" (a.k.a. strawberry ice cream cone) and he ate it all up with pleasure. For better or for worse, I think his sugary taste buds are starting to develop. Beatrice also dove into her cone and sucked almost all of the ice cream out of her cone before eating the cone, starting at the bottom. That made a mess. On our way out we ran into our friends. Nathan and Beatrice enjoyed a nice, sugar induced, bouncing "ice cream dance" with Zoe, Tessa and Tate.



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