Mealtime
The dining room. 12:30pm. Thursday. Late October.
SAM is sitting at the table eating his lunch. MOM is hovering by him, occasionally sitting down at the table until ROBBY, a 2 month old baby strapped to her in a front pack begins to whimper and wake, to which she responds by periodically standing and swaying back and forth while gently bouncing up and down.
SAM has just started dropping small bites of hot dog into his cup of milk.
MOM: Sam, I don’t know if that’s such a good idea. Isn’t it kind of yucky?
SAM: Mmmm…no. Just right. Yummy. (takes 2 sips of the milk) See? Yummy. (adds 3 more pieces of hot dog to milk, dips one piece and eats it) Out, Mommy. Hot gog out.
MOM: You want me to get the hot dog out with a fork?
SAM: Yes.
(MOM picks up fork and proceeds to retrieve hot dog pieces from the milk and deposit them on the plate)
SAM: No! No! Eat, Mommy, eat!
MOM: You want to eat these bites?
SAM: Yes! Yummy! (MOM proceeds to feed SAM 7 bites of milky hot dog with a fork) Try it! Try it!
MOM: Um, no, Honey. Thank you for sharing, but no thank you…
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Yes, occasionally I feed my son a turkey dog. I’m not proud of it, but sometimes, for example when one is still negotiating how to handle having two kids, one needs to skip a lunch time battle every so often.We’ll be having Mac and Cheese with hidden cauliflower tonight. Love this new book!
Do you really have this book? I have it ordered for you for Christmas. It is backordered 3-6 weeks.
Comment by jaybee4000 — October 25, 2007 @ 2:08 pm
We had hot dogs for lunch too today. And I have a butternut squash roasting in the oven to make that same dish, and also cauliflower frozen.
It’s a good book.
Comment by kelli in the mirror — October 25, 2007 @ 3:11 pm
Nuttin wrong with hot dogs. Especially dunked in milk.
Comment by tracey — October 25, 2007 @ 3:13 pm
Miss A loves garlic sausage and pickles. Not really high in nutritional content I’m sure but food just the same and she enjoys it. I say “Why not?”
Comment by Mama D — October 26, 2007 @ 3:13 am
Erm … if you aren’t comfortable with the nutritional value of the turkey dog, you can at least take comfort in knowing that Sam at least got calcium and vitamin D.
Comment by Allie — November 5, 2007 @ 12:11 pm