Sunday, September 26, 2010

Food wars

Our two year old will eat just about anything, salad, green smoothie, beans, rice, and of course the rare occasion of McDonald's cuisine. We are somewhat surprised to see that he enjoys these foods and even asks for them. We actually count ourselves lucky that he enjoys such a variety of foods. Amazingly enough our battle is not over eating food, but keeping said food on the table when the meal is done.
The other night he must have been in some sort of funk, because the food fight began before he even took a bite. I set a bowl of Indian Butter Chicken http://thepioneerwoman.com/tasty-kitchen/recipes/main-courses/butter-chicken-2/ before him and he freaked out, screamed, and before I knew it the bowl ricocheted across the room off our TV stand landing right side up. Some might say that was lucky, but I think not. That meant the food that should be in the bowl was allowed to fly with force to every available surface in the vicinity. We surveyed the damage to find food in every imaginable place. He smirked with glee that he caught our attention as we proceeded to clean the mess. We wiped down the TV, the DVDs, the CD case, the hanging pictures, and the walls. As we wiped the walls we noticed that even the ceiling was speckled with pink dots from the meal. He stayed in his booster firmly strapped until the mess was clean. Since he had not started his meal I told him that he was now going to be fed by me instead of being a "big boy" and being able to feed himself. He resigned and ate his food that he so rapidly expelled off the table ten minutes earlier. My question now is: will my kitchen ever be clean??

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