No pictures for this one, but a funny story…
At dinner the other night Maile was giving us some trouble about eating some of her food – mushrooms specifically.
Mommy said to her that she was surprised that she wasn’t eating because when she was a baby she was such a good eater and ate everything, including mushrooms.
Maile kept complaining and Christine and I kept trying different things to get her to eat.
Finally, Maile looked at us all sad and said something about wishing she was a baby. “I wish I was a baby so I would just eat the food you gave me.”
Christine launched into a whole thing about all the things that a baby can’t do (babies don’t get to eat cookies, watch shows, etc.) and asked Maile if she really wanted to be a baby.
Maile started to get more upset on the verge of tears and repeated the wishing she was a baby line. “I wish I was a baby so I would just eat the food you gave me.” The second time she said it, I realized what she was actually saying: she was saying she wished she was a baby so that she liked the food we were so desperately trying to get her to eat! She was trying to make us happy and just didn’t know what to do since she REALLY didn’t like the mushrooms.
(Heart melts)
