Dinner at our house may go something like this:
1. Trevan and Mallary fighting over who gets to say the prayer to bless the food.
2. Trevan not wanting anything he's being offered.
3. Mallary following his lead, not wanting anything being offered. Pushing her bowl to me, "You eat it Mommy."
4. Mallary screaming because she wants a tangerine and ice cream. We tell her she has to eat some soup first.
5. Mallary screaming so much she gets to be removed from the table.
6. "Hold you, Mama. Hold you, Mama." she cries. "Sorry, I'm eating dinner right now, I can't hold you."
7. Mallary screaming.
8. John losing his patience and asking Mallary if she's ready to go to bed.
9. Me telling Mallary she gets a time out if she doesn't stop screaming.
10. Mallary puts herself in time out.
11. Mallary asking for ice cream. Me telling her she can't have any until she eats some soup. I offer her a bite from her spoon, she accepts.
12. John putting Mallary back in her seat.
13. Mallary crying because she wants to sit next to me. We move her next to me.
14. Mallary eating her soup, after not tasting it since Saturday! If at first they don't try it; we try, try again. (Oh yes, I'm all about left overs.)
15. Trevan asking if there is blood in his meat. "Didn't there used to be blood in the meat?" he asked.
16. Trevan breaking up pieces of his meat and putting individual pieces on each tine of the fork. "They're missiles." (combined with the sound effects)
17. John asking Trevan, "Do we play with our food?"
18. Mallary finally gets her tangerine. She then finally gets her ice cream, and doesn't want it.
19. We finish dinner, and sit at the table reading National Geographic for kids. Mallary loves it.
20. Dinner was filled with screaming, whining, eye rolls, and shot nerves. Sometimes it's filled with so much giggling, that's even annoying.
TUESDAY TIP: Eat dinner by myself... and you might want to think twice before eating dinner at our house! (though our kids are much better with other people eating with us!)
3 comments:
I'm impressed she eats tangerines - what does she do with the seeds?
Our kids are worse when we have people over, I'm sorry to say. Just ask Ben and Marianne.
I guess, technically they are those cutie clementines, seedless. i think my kids are better when people are over, because trevan likes talking to them and asking them questions, instead of instigating something with mallary.
Mine like showing off, acting crazy, being excessively loud, and monopolizing the conversation.
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