adventures in feeding J

CO is a fantastic eater! There are less than 5 things that I can think of that he won't eat.
J...is NOT a great eater! I can only think of 5 things he will happily eat every time they are served to him (ok some exaggeration!)...he will eat bananas, apples, grapes, oranges, cheese & yogurt happily. Some days he will eat pears, cherries, strawberries, pineapple, oatmeal, raisins, kiwi & egg (hard boiled). I have succeeded in getting him to eat peas twice and that was only like 10 each time. He ate about 20 kernels of cooked corn once. He won't touch tomatoes, broccoli, cauliflower, beans (green or kidney), blueberries, carrots, sweet potato, watermelon, honeydew, cucumber, cantaloupe and many of the other millions (once again some exaggeration) of things I have handed him. Monday on the way home from my parent's trailer I stopped at the grocery store to grab some jars of baby food veggies (his last FM said that he didn't like toddler baby food...so I was thinking she didn't feed him any jar food). He ate two bites of peas and that was it. He happily opened his mouth for the carrots and for the carrots that I mixed the peas into). He has issues if his puree has chunks in it but he is getting better. At first if I gave him yogurt and there were fruit chunks in it he would spit out the chunk and get mad. I have successfully managed to hide mashed avocado in his yogurt if I make sure it is all of the same consistency about 6 times...
I can't believe how picky this baby is. He has a very quick 'spit out' reflex! But the funny thing is that he eats chunks of things...you just can't mix them with a puree and you just have to guess which thing he is willing to eat at which moment. And if he spies something that he loves (like an orange) he will refuse to eat anything else (even if it is something I know he likes) but the desired item. Which makes having a fruit bowl out on my table a pain.
We are making progress I think. I just keep offering him bits of lots of things and some days he will eat them...other days he just throws them on the floor (very annoying habit that needs to be stopped). I have to not let it frustrate me...especially when I am offering him something he happily ate the day before and he is refusing to eat it. This morning he ate two bites of his banana and then refused to eat any more which was odd because it is one of his ALWAYS will eat items. But then later at the grocery store, on the way out he spied the bananas in the bin so I opened one for him and gave him half and he gobbled it right down....silly boy. I will be happy when he is handed a vegetable and willingly picks it up and eats it....that is my goal!

In the mean time I realise how blessed I am with CO's eating...he eats spicy, onions, practically anything!