She is going on two and a half.

Portland is a fantastic city for little kids, lots of parks. Just fifteen minutes walk from my house is a park with a pool, a gym, two big playground installations, a water playground, ball fields, a massive fountain and rose garden and wifi. It's a great place to take kids. About a block from my house is a little one lot park, not fantastic, but fun hills a few sitting logs and a small vegetable garden. There is another park about ten minutes walk with some playground equipment, a big hill, and ball fields that overlooks the river. Rain is the biggest impediment to spending an hour outside for a good part of the year.

My kid is under the first percentile in weight, probably around the half a percentile. So lighter than every few hundred babies her doctor see for her age. Most babies in this category have a serious health problems. We have had to do blood work and go through a failure to thrive question session. She is fine, probably in the 90% for developmental skills in her age range, but the doctors have to be concerned. It just stresses a person out to hear someone say "I'm concerned that she may be experience a failure to thrive." Like I said we have tried everything food wise. She likes to eat different foods (brussel sprouts, ginger, broccoli) but also like the kid foods you are talking about, but not much of any of them.

I supplement many of her foods with high fat additions. Yesterday after eating a small bowl of heavily buttered vegetables she said "I drink sauce." She then tipped up the bowl and slurped down about an ounce of melted butter, hell yea!