When Elizabeth was a baby I think she tried bananas, once or twice and then has consistently and adamantly rejected them ever since.
I have heard it said that it can take 20+ (I can't remember the exact number) times being exposed to a food before a child will actually eat it; I also have heard that taste buds die off and regenerate, and that children have more taste buds than adults do. ANYWAYS, I haven't force Elizabeth to eat bananas, I just try to offer them to her whenever I am eating them so that she will continue to be exposed to them and maybe someday like them, but she never has accepted my offers.
Back to the present:
Life is funny sometimes and this afternoon was one of those times. I had decided to watched a video clip on the computer while eating a banana; Elizabeth heard the video and came into the room and climbed up onto my lap to watch with me, and that's when she saw it, my banana. She took it from me and said that she wanted to hold it, so I gave it to her willingly and then I patiently, quietly, EAGERLY watched her hoping that she just might try it of her own accord.
She looked at it in her hand. She Licked it, and licked it again, and then moment of truth came... she took a bit... and then another!
It is needless to say, that I was happy that after about 2 years of trying to get her to eat bananas, she just up and tried a banana without any prompting from me at all and liked it! She didn't eat it all, in fact she probably just took a couple more bites before she gave it to me and said that she was done; at which point I just said okay, and ate the rest myself and then didn't bring up the whole "you ate a banana!" until a few minutes after the fact.
Well, we'll see if this new food sticks, or if it was just an experiment out of pure curioisty that has now been satisfied for the time being; but in either case it made me smile.
(I didn't take a picture in the moment; I guess I was trying hard to let it be natural and play out spontaneously without me making a big deal out of it, but I also wanted to include a picture with this post, so this is a picture of Elizabeth that I took just this morning)
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