Ally woke up yesterday morning at 6:00. Normally this wouldn't really bother me because I'm usually up then anyway, because Anya wakes up around then to eat, and stays up. Yesterday, however, Anya decided to eat at 4 and sleep in. I thought I would get to sleep too. When will I ever learn?
Anyway, she wasvery hungry, so I got out the piece of sausage. She will be presented with the meal Rob and I eat, and if she wants something else in between, she gets whatever she didn't eat last time. About 8:30 I made scrambled eggs and toast. Ally loves toast (as she told us 50 bajillion times while she was waiting for breakfast to be ready), but she doesn't like eggs (which she told us 5 million bajillion times while she was waiting for supper to be ready). Finally I told her that I knew she didn't think she liked eggs, and I didn't want to hear her tell me anymore. if she said it one more time, she was going to have to go to the living room and wait for breakfast in there. So when breakfast was ready, I told her she could get off the couch and come to the table. She got one piece of toast, and could get more if she tried eggs. She actually ate 3 or 4 bites! of eggs! without much prompting! She's a lot more compliant when she's starving to death. She was even polite most of the day. Much more so than usual.
We went to the fair and she had fair food for lunch, and we all ate fried fish filets for supper. She usually won't eat them if they are not in stick form, but had no problems last night. Even asked for more (which she didn't eat). We'll see how it goes now that she's back in day care for the week.