To Eat or Not to Eat

We have been really struggling with Addison eating. I never thought that a 4 year old would not want to eat, but she DOESN'T! She never wants to try anything new because in her words "It's too yucky!" Of course we ask her "Have your ever tried it?" Her response "No, because its yucky!" The the rebuttal to that comment is the quote from Yo Gabba Gabba, "Try it, you might like it!" Nothing ever seems to work. For the past year or more she has lived off of mini pancakes (plain), chocolate chip waffles(plain), and chicken nuggets and fries. Now the chicken nuggets have to be from certain places or she won't eat them either!

For her birthday, I told her we could go where ever she wanted to go. She said "Charley's" (her name for O'Charley's). Then she proceeded to ask me could she only eat rolls and butter and nothing else because that is all she wanted. I told her it was her birthday and that was okay with me. At O'Charley's she ate 4 rolls!! Then she ate a cheese stick from one of our friends plates. I told the waitress that it was Addy's birthday and could we get a brownie and ice cream. Addy ENGULFED all of the brownie and ice cream all by herself!!!!! Right after she looked a little too full. Tim asked her if she was going to get sick, but she said no. But I knew deep down it was about to happen. I took her to the bathroom and it ALL came back up!! This was the 2nd birthday that she had thrown up on!

How do you get a very picky 4 year old to eat some healthier food? We have tried to get her to eat other things by telling her she wouldn't get anything else to eat. But she just doesn't eat! Luckily for her and us, she is gaining weight and the doctor said everything was fine!

Just a frustrating part of being a parent!!! Hopefully one day it will get better and hopefully that day will be before she starts school!!!