Mark's losing it

Its happening to fast.

A demand to be moved.

He has no right to demand. Unless it's a bottle. Or more fries

Or a cup, 20 minutes into dinner. This one demand makes me feel bad. Nearly every night we forget. Until he screams holy terror. On the bright side, its one of the few times he says, "No!" Seriously. We point to every item of food on the table as we hear no no no. Then every night, desperate, grant starts pointing at silverware. In his defense, mark often is demanding a fork or spoon. Hmmm. I now realize that was just the first step in this slippery slope. So grant will point to a fork. Them to food on his plate, the best food in the kitchen. Then to the cup. "Moe, peas!" (more please. Aww!) was his reply tonight. Again.

It's a good thing we don't have teenagers, or they would smirk at the stupidity of their parents failed pattern skills. Even Kate can tell a repeating pattern, duh!

So you can see that Mark doesn't have many unreasonable demands.

Tonight was NOT a reasonable demand.

If you know our pattern, you would know that Friday night is movie night. That's what we tell the kids, to get them excited about sorting their own week's dirty laundry. You need to know this because I want you to applauded my ingenuity. Because you don't need to know why we watched a movie and how that lead to popcorn.

Popcorn is popped. Kitchen and laundry room happen to be clean, leading Mark to eat yet another culinary delight in his high chair. Tonight he didn't go. Rare, but okay. He ran from me as I grabbed his small body. Very rare, but he is a kid. Then he climbed on the bench. The bench that gets the bad end of dinner quarrels. And he sits. He won't be moved. He demands that I let him sit on the bench to eat. Just like the other kids. Just like they eat with forks. And talk. And talk back. And potty train. And potty mouth train.


And that is how Mark has edged even closer to that slippery slope leaving babyland. Be still my heart! It aches as I see yet another step our baby has taken out of babyland. For this time it's not just a hypothetical last one. It is really and truly our last one. So that slippery slope seems more steep thank before.



Sent from my Windows Mobile Phone