Dinner conversation
We cooked spaghetti for supper tonight. I fed Anya some carrots while the noodles were cooking, and Ally tasted them. She said she wanted some, so we added carrots to the menu. We always have garlic cheese bread with spaghetti, but we told her she couldn't have any until she had 2 bites of carrots and 2 bites of spaghetti. This child would live on carbs if we let her. Dinnertime went something like this (I should have given the kids different initials. When Anya starts talking, there will be a lot more typing for me):
A: I need a fork.
Me: You have a fork.
A: I need a green fork
M: Honey, we don't have any green forks. You the one on your plate
A: (whiney voice) I need a GREEN fork.
Rob: Ally. Stop whining
A: But I need a clean fork.
M: Oh, a clean fork? just lick that one off. It's just spaghetti sauce (I cut up her spaghetti with it)
A; ehhh. wahhh... but I want a clean fork.
M: (picks fork up and licks it) There.
A: Thank you.
A: Are these carrots?
R: Yes. You should taste one.
A: Can I cut it?
M: with your fork
A: this one?
M: I don't care which one
A: into 4 triangles?
R: Ally just put a bite in your mouth
A: this one?
R & M: Ally! put a bite in your mouth
A: I cut it!
A: (cuts a tiny little 1/4 of a carrot)
A: can I have another one?
R: yes.
A: Are you eating your carrots?
R: No, Ally I already ate mine. Because I'm eating instead of talking.
A: oh. (puts her fork in her toes) And I'm talking?
R: Get your fork up here where we can see it
K: Yes. take another bite
A: this one?
M: We don't care which one you eat. Just put one in your mouth.
(Ally proceeds to eat a couple more. Anya falls over in the living room. Ally turns around to see what's going on, and once again forgets that she's supposed to be eating. This goes on for some time)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~later~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
A: I ate all my carrots. Now I can have cheesy bread!
R: No, you need to eat some spaghetti.
A: Oh. Is yours all gone?
R: Yes.
A: but Mommy's isn't
M: But I'm eating it. Take a bite
(Ally tries to get one piece of spaghetti on her fork and fails.)
R: Ally, you have to scoop it.
M: Let me show you how. (I get her 2 little pieces on her fork. She eats them)
A: I got another one (1 little piece)
R: That wasn't a bite. That was just one piece. You need to take 2 bigger bites.
A: Oh. That wasn't a big one? Is this a big one?
K: Yes. If you eat that one, you only have to take 1 bite. But I think it might be too big.
A: Oh (dumps it off her fork)
R: Get another bite.
A: Is this one too big?
R: No, that one is great. Put it in your mouth.
R: Ally put it in your mouth.
R: Less talking and more eating
A: (working on her second bite) After I eat this I can have Cheesy bread
R: (to me) I'm going to choke her
A: It will choke me? (lets the bite slide off the fork)
K: I'll get you a good bite.
Finally, Ally ate a full serving of carrots. 2 bites of spaghetti and a piece of garlic cheese bread. It only took an hour
Posted by ktjrdn
at 19:45 CDT