About a week ago, Leo came home with from daycare with a hoarse sounding cough. He stopped coughing after a couple of days.
A few days ago, Roma started coughing in that same hoarse like voice.
The last two nights have been horrible for her and not that great for Adam and I. She didn’t want to stay in her crib so we put her between the two of us until she eventually fell asleep. ¬†The hour this occurred : 3:30 am. The previous night was a similar scene and time.
Roma won’t eat a thing. She pushes the plate or spoon out of the way or tells you a very definite ‘No’ ¬†to the food offered. She has lost her appetite, only drinking her milk and water. It’s so strange because normally she eats everything. Roma is not a fussy eater.
The other day, running out of food to offer and getting more frustrated and worried as to what to feed her I thought I would try her favorite food of all foods to eat.
Roma loves corn on the cob. It has to be on the cob though the kernels alone won’t do.
In the morning, she drank her milk at breakfast time but left the Cheerios, she didn’t eat the fish sticks or peas at daycare ¬†during lunch so now here was dinner time. Let’s see what would happen.
Roma refused the lasagna, the red cabbage but hooray devoured the corn on the cob. She pointed to the second piece that I had left for her on the side of my plate. She ate that too. Leo took two bites from his and didn’t want anymore so Roma happily obliged to finish his piece. She wasn’t done yet. Adam cut a piece from his cob and she ate all the corn on that too. ¬†I quickly ate my corn before she wanted to attack that as well. Adam began chomping on his piece at a greater rate too not wanting to succumbed to her need to feed on all the corn on the cob in sight.
When she was done feasting she said she wanted out of her high chair. She was over the corn fest. Her deed was done.
Adam and I looked at the pile of cobs and laughed.
Roma is 20 months old , off all food right now due to constantly coughing and a runny nose  but loves her corn on the cob however she is feeling.
