Sean and the boys have been playing a knights game on the computer after dinner for the past few weeks. They love it and look forward to Daddy getting home each night so they can play. Well, on Friday night, they absolutely refused to eat their dinner. (I don’t even remember what it was now, but they acted as if they might die trying to eat it.) So, Sean told them if they didn’t eat it then they couldn’t play knights that night after dinner. Colm still wouldn’t eat. Liam tried, but he was picking and poking at his food and I was not going to sit there with him all night. So Sean told them that they wouldn’t be playing knights that night and got up from the table. (oh, dear, you should have heard the wailing). But it got worse…Sean went and played without them. He went in his office, shut the door and played for a good half hour. Their little world collapsed. The tears. The howling. I think there were some pint-sized insults thrown in Sean’s direction. You should see these kids eat now though. Not only are they eating things they would never have eaten five days ago, but they know they have to eat it in a reasonable amount of time, too. They were literally scarfing down their pasta last night. I love it! I could serve them pigs ears with garlic sauce now and I think they would find a way to choke it down.
Archive for January 29th 2008
This afternoon Colm found his new favorite book in Liam’s room. He brought it to me to read to him, but he didn’t shut Liam’s door and the dog was going to go in his room. This is a big deal and Colm knows it. The dog is not allowed into their rooms because he eats their stuffed animals. I told Colm he needed to go back and shut Liam’s door and then I would read him the book. He wouldn’t shut the door, so I shut it. He then realized that I really wasn’t going to read him the book now because he didn’t follow directions and shut the door like I had asked. So he went back and opened the door so he could then shut it so that I could then read him the book.