Monday, May 17, 2010

She Shoots, She Scores...

and she has a big win at the dinner table! Okay, I'll stop referring to myself in the third person and come back down to Earth.
Lat night's dinner? Fish, chips from the freezer and steamed vegies. Offspring #2, aka Miss Fussy Bum, aka the pain in the butt who I fight with at dinner every single night until I want to scream and run away from my whole family, ate every single bite without a single complaint.
Tonight's dinner? Meatloaf, steamed vegies and mashed potato that I took Jo Mc's hint with and hid some steamed mashed cauliflower in. Again, she ate every single bite without complaining. Alright, one small whine about the bean on her plate but she subsided when I reminded her to have some potato with it to help it go down better.
Then I served up apple and apricot crumble (using some of the stewed apricots that were prepared and frozen back in January) with icecream. She tasted some apricot, pulled the best 'medicine face' I've seen for ages - it involved a whole body shudder which was totally entertaining - and decided she'd just eat the ice-cream and let her dad finish off the crumble.
People, are you holding your breath? Then, she turned to me, thanked me for dinner and announced that it was "alishus". Could a mother be any more proud?

5 comments:

Amanda said...

I'm smiling because I was exactly like your daughter when I was little except I probably would of noticed that the mash tasted 'funny' I don't know how many times I was sent to bed with no dinner!!!

B and the boys said...

Fantastic to hear about a success with Ms. Picky! If i could get the 3 year old to eat consistently I would be as pleased. I love the "potato" idea!

Iris Flavia said...

Wow! Cute she thanked you for dinner! Guess you´re doing a pretty good job there!!! :-)

Anonymous said...

I knew Pop's gorgeous girl would come out again. She must be scared of us 'coz she always eats her tea. M&D

Chicken Willow said...

Well done! Love the new look blog by the way.