Oh me in all my cleverness....it never ceases to amaze me what a dumby I can be sometimes. I had this brilliant plan of how to get my kids to eat some new foods. This theory dates back to last summer when I was able to convince my boys to eat broccoli by calling it "tree stars" like from the Land Before Time. They thought that was pretty cool.....who doesn't want to be a prehistoric singing reptile right?
So here I am thinking, ooooooohkay, I know how to get Gavin to eat corn off the cob...I will tell them that it is not corn, but "magical tickle bugs".....oh wait, this gets better. I decide to convince them by taking a bite myself and then laughing like crazy pretending that it was tickling my stomach. They laughed....who wouldn't, a grown woman squirming around for no good reason that you can tell. So they ask me to take another bite......being the genius that I am I think, "it's working" and in goes another bite. I finally caught on to their game after five or so bites. Brilliant. And in todays headlines a Mechanicsville woman's brains were found lost among a bag of jelly beans....unfortunately scientists were unable to determine the difference between her brain and the cherry limeade.
So, I told Gavin he needed to eat his magical tickle bugs, to which he replies, "mommy I don't eat bugs" and I told him he was just using his imagination.
So a bit later he starts builing a "castle" with his cheese cubes. I tell him to stop and eat his cheese cubes....he then says to me, "mommy I can't eat these, they're bricks. I don't eat bricks."
"Gavin, those aren't bricks, they're cheese cubes....eat them."
"Mommy, I'm using my imagination."
Final score:
Gavin 2, Mommy 0
Oh I love being an idiot.
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3 comments:
HAHAHAHA! That is one smart kid! Too funny...this reminds me of a Charlie and Lola episode that I thought was so clever. I think there's a book too. It's something like "I absolutely won't eat a tomato" and Charlie uses all these funny names and explanations for stuff to get her to eat her veggies, fish sticks, etc... It's really cute.
"I will not ever, never eat a tomato"
my kids wrote it.
Yes! That's it! I love that cartoon.
P.S. You are not an idiot.
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