hunger games

E loves to eat. Meal time is one of the bright spots of his day.....


But not this morning. This morning we had the battle of wills.

It all started with three slices of apple. I showed E an apple and a pear and he happily pointed to the apple. He likes apples. He ate apples yesterday. But not today.

Maybe it all started first thing this morning when he woke up. He called for Mama and when he saw me coming instead of his mom he threw a tantrum. So when I put the three apple slices in front of him he took one small bite and then refused to eat anymore. I retrieved apple slices and parts of apple slices off the floor multiple times, washed them off and put them in front of him again. Two hours later he finally decided that he would eat the apple, then happily topped that off with a good size serving of eggs.


I felt pretty good about winning this test of wills.