gross food

I was a very picky eater as a child. My children up to recently did not decide to haunt me with this bad habit that I had. UNTIL NOW. #3 18 months has now decided he will not eat the food that I give him in his highchair. NO he would rather eat the grossest thing he can find in my house that day. 

1. Normally everyday he throws all of his breakfast on the floor. I leave it there while I run my oldest to school. Then when he gets home he just eats it off the floor. Or if I am a good mom and I sweep then he run over and tries to get it out of my swept pile. 

- i know i know sweep while he is still in his chair--- some how that never seems to work out :) 

2. He would like to finish my apple at the park that he has dropped in the dirt multiple times 

3. The random crumbs in my car from ??? 

4. Candy with the wrapper still on 

5. Deodorant 

6. My kids soggy morning cereal

7. His latest was a piece of  raisin toast that was left outside and was kinda soggy. I even went inside got him a fresh piece of toast NO he would not leave the soggy one alone. Really child really. 

Apparently, the food that I give him, in his nice clean chair and looking un mysterious and adventurish is just way to boring for him. 

This is him eating an ice cream cone in the bath tub. Maybe I am to nice and have created my own little monster. 

little miracle--- in the form of a bug

The other day I had a miracle. 

My oldest, age 6 was having a rough rough day and I was doing my best to just well, give him space and allow him to have a bad day. He did though have him tv privileges removed for the day. 

I was outside enjoying the sun shine with the younger two when he decided that now it was his time to "STICK IT TO THE MAN" (mom) he locked us out. Since my approach was to not join the fight ------- {fyi, I have no idea what is the right parenting style in these situations, and this is was the one I have been using lately} I just sat right there on the grass and continued to play. Every few minutes he would open the door and say "if you let me watch tv, you can come inside." I would then reply, No I am having fun out here. No, we are playing soccer, No, I dont like to hang out with grumpy people. I was hoping he would decide that having fun was more fun than being mad. NOPE did not work :( 

Well about an hour passed and I was thinking maybe I had picked the wrong choice. How can I let him think that he has this type of power over me. What was I going to do??!!! 

I was determined to not panic or loose my cool. I had delt with a cranky kid for hours I was not going to give in in the twilight of the battle. 

Then my miracle through the form of a very loud bug coming from my drain pipe. I yelled to the younger kids "wow guys check this out". Well it was so loud it caught the attention of the elder, he came racing out to see the commotion and we all hunted and investigated trying to find the bug that was making this crazy sound. It snapped him out of his mood and like returned to normal. 

We never found him but little big you were my miracle.