DAILY SNACK
I was on my own with the kids yesterday evening,
And thought we might pop in on my family,
Around dinnertime. (Ours not theirs.)
They live a 15-minute walk away so picking up pizza en route seemed easy.
Seemed.
Colum was super excited about getting pizza,
Until we were right at the threshold of the pizzeria.
Cue the whining: “I don’t waaant Vesuvios.”
What? I wheel the stroller in anyway and push him along.
“No! I don’t want Vesuvios!”
He ran out onto the street.
I wasn’t about to subject the good people of Vesuvios Pizza to anymore histrionics.
So I laid out a new plan.
“New plan,” I said. “I will be in charge of picking out some dinner and you will eat it. End of story.”
I ordered chicken and broccoli and steamed rice at a Chinese place down the street.
I paid for it.
We went outside to wait and Colum’s face began to crumple.
“I want Vesuvios!”
There was jumping up and down and loud whining and maybe even a tear or two.
Give me a break.
4 replies on “What? I’ve got to feed these kids EVERY day?”
This scenario seems oddly familiar to me…I wish I could say the random contrariness goes away quickly, but I’ve got a just-about 5 year old who’s still going strong in that department.
Random contrariness … yes that just about sums it up. So, another 2 years or so you say? Fantastic.
Pizza looks better than broccoli to me as well. I aggree with C. Unfortunately I am also familiar reasoning with a toddler or making an attempt too. So did he get the pizza?
I did not give him pizza. (The Chinese was already purchased.) When I arrived at my parents, however, there actually happened to be some left over pizza, so he did get to eat a slice after choking back an entire broccoli floret, a piece of chicken and a spoonful of rice.