More on Soy

The joy and celebration have not dissipated. It's hard to get me in a bad mood these days- I just keep thinking about Obama.

But, alas, it is ok to blog about something else, although I have a few more Obamablogs in the pipeline.

Today is about soy. A couple things.

1)Tonight at dinner, we discovered a food Johan doesn't like: Tofu. At least, baked tofu. He opened his mouth for it, then spit it out directly, shuddered and made a grunting sort of gross sound. Even when I said "yum yum" to try to make him realize it is something he should like, it was a no go. This is the first food Johan has absolutely refused. Sorry, California.

2) Johan will be one year old on Saturday. Wow. He can walk and laugh and get an attitude and entertain himself and help put on his hat. It's pretty awesome. One of the changes we get to make on the big 0-1 is to switch him from formula to regular milk. But, I've been thinking about switching him to soy milk. We are not anti-dairy. In fact, cottage cheese is probably my favorite food; Johan's too. (Eduardo thinks we are gross for eating cottage cheese, but he just doesn't understand American freedoms and the like.) Any-hoo, between cheese, yogurt, and ice cream, I have a feeling this little boy will be getting *enough* dairy. And since soy protein is supposed to be so great, soy milk in lieu of whole milk seems like an easy way to get soy protein. On the other hand, I have read reports of soy mimicking estrogen and while there's no doubt that Johan is pretty, I don't need a little boy with breast buds or anything. Johan's 12 month check up is next Tuesday and I purposely made the appointment with the younger, more open-minded MD so I can ask her about soy milk.

If she says soy milk is a safe choice, don't tell Johan that soy milk is made from the same stuff as tofu, ok?