So, after a few days of patting myself on the back for my brilliant veggie strategy, I'm thinking I might need to rethink it. A couple of days ago I tried green beans, which FYI are one of my fav veggies and one that I thought was pretty kid friendly. Well, I forgot that i am raising the drama queen of the world! The boys did fine- Jared made the cutest grossed out face each time he ate one- but they did fine. In fact, Zach figured out the system and after enjoying a small bowl of cookies and cream ice cream asked, "Mom, if I eat more green beans can I have more ice cream?" Well I had to think about that for a minute, but decided okay that would be fine. He ate 2 more helpings of green beans and had 2 more bowls of ice cream! Hannah on the other hand, gagged on each green bean. Seriously gagged- it channeled the days when mom would make me try a snowpea! yuck. SO as I am having my snowpea flashback I realize this is going to be bad. I tell my sweet girl, "Hannah you don't have to eat those." I want to say that she can just have the ice cream, but how would that be fair? I mean, the boys ate theirs and I didn't give her that many...oh being a mom is soooo hard sometimes. But Hannah is determined she is going to get that ice cream. She eats all but one and then says she has to go potty. She comes out of the potty saying her tummy hurts and she better lay down for a little bit. She then declares that she must be allergic to green beans so she can never eat them again. But as I am making her bowl of ice cream Zach chimes in, "But she still has a green bean on her plate! She can't have ice cream yet." oh brothers!!! So she drags herself off the couch and over to the table whining, "but mom I am allergic to green beans...i can't eat even one more!" Then her knight in shining armor comes to the rescue (as usual, man that girl knows how to work him) "Hannah," dad says, "How about I eat half and you eat half, then you can have ice cream?" Well half to him was the entire thing except for this teeny-tiny piece. But oh well she ate it, and was soo happy when she got her ice cream.
Then came the part that I remembered so well as a young girl. She decided she could eat more green beans in order to have more ice cream. I'm not sure why I even let her try, I think there is this morbid part of me that wanted to see if she could keep them down. Anyways, I'm sure you can guess what happened. Mid-bean she starts to gagg again, but this time it all came up- the ice cream, the green beans, all of it. And my poor sweet baby started crying because she thought I was going to make her eat more, because the ones she threw up didn't count! So, our veggie policy is out the window. But I still want them to try veggies so any ideas? And once again that Mother of the Year award slips further from my grasp...Seriously, I am like Susan Lucci and the daytime emmys (oh wait she did eventually win, didn't she? maybe there is still hope for me then)
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That is horrible, I am sorry. Hey we are coming to Vegas in two weeks and I want to come down one day and see you guys. Let me know if that will work.
I'm with Hannah on this one. My mother used to make me sit at the table until I ate them. Often times this meant I was at the table until they were ready to go to bed. Then I got spanked and sent to bed. Never bothered me as long as I didn't have to eat those NASTY things. Nothing more gross than a canned green bean! Hang in there Hannah, the bishop is allergic to them too!
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