healthy eating gone wrong!

I vowed as a pregnant, research savvy, know-it-all mom-to-be that I would not let my child have sweets until she was 3 & then she could have small amount of them. See... I have pretty strict thoughts on kids being raised on junk, I think it is horrible how parents pump their children full of junk & then wonder why they are acting out, not sleeping good, becoming overweight adults... you get the point. I was not going to do that! I consider myself pretty healthy & well balanced with my eating (90% of the time- the other 10% is my coffee addiction ;) I read an article out there about children developing their desire for certain foods by the age of 3, so my theory would work! RIGHT!? WRONG!!!! This totally backfired on me. I was extremely strict with Karly's diet. Then the day came & she met ice-cream. My daughter is full on addicted to ice-cream, honestly it is like nothing I've ever seen. She craves it & thinks no meal is complete with out it, she actually considers it a meal. One day we had "fun day" & I told her she could have dessert first, before dinner, you would have thought I told her she was going to Disney World. Never seen so much happiness! I would call her an ice-cream guru. She does not just settle for cheap grocery store ice-cream either. We were actually out the other day & she got a free one with a kids meal & threw it away cause she said "this is cheap ice-cream, they should not give this out!" LOL. This addiction has slowly gotten worse & worse... She now has a personal relationship with the ice-cream truck driver. He stopped the other day & she preceded to ask "Do you think that you could make me your first stop? and what time will you be coming?" She sits on the front porch every day at 5:36 cause she knows he is on his way! Part of me finds it absolutely adorable & the other part of me knows how wrong this is! LOL. I will say this, it is a generational thing-- her father has the same love. How can I tell her NO when Daddy is chasing down the ice-cream truck with her?! I'm at a loss here! My advise to those out there like myself-- stuff your child with sets as a baby & then maybe they'll hate them as they get bigger; cause depriving them of it definitely does not work! As for Karly, she swears that when she is 20 yrs old she is going to open a bakery & sell ice cream too! Guess I can't stifle her dreams. I mean it is dairy, right?! LOL! So much for my theory!

hailing the ice-cream truck!

You must get every last drop!