Dinner Theater
This evening, Cal and I watched as Em smashed and beat her dinner roll nearly flat with the back of her spoon.
In the world of Two, food isn’t just for nourishment or even flavor — it’s for play and for art and for sport. Edible fun! It isn’t unusual for Em to do all manner of terrible things to her food, so we were fully prepared to see her take the roll-smashing to the roadkill level.
But she didn’t.
Instead, she began circling the deflated roll with two little fingers on the table. Fingers that first appraised the situation, then seemed to be discussing whether or not the roll would make a suitable bed for finger people.
“Mommy Daddy bed?” she squealed excitedly, giving one of the fingers a voice.
“No! Mommy Daddy bed!” the other finger replied, with identical pitch and tone.
Calvin and I suppressed giggles.
The fingers fell to arguing, then abruptly collapsed into the bed, fell into a deep sleep, and began snoring loudly.
With a jerk just as sudden, one of the fingers sat up in bed and picked up the conversation where it left off, quite possibly having no idea that it was awake, let alone talking. “What? Mommy Daddy bed?” it said groggily.
“Mommy? Daddy? NO Mommy Daddy bed!” piped an intruder — a third little finger — in a distinctly girlish voice.
This third finger came and went several times, always bringing with it the same aura of confusion and inciting further debate about the Mommy-Daddy bed. We could only surmise that the third finger was the reason the first two fingers never stayed asleep for long, and the scene always ended with the mommy and daddy going back to sleep.
Then Em took a huge bite out of the bed, and the play was over.
But I think it was based on a true story.
How Cute! She is very creative! At least she did finally eat it after playing with it for so long.
You are right, by the way, corned beef is not very good.
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Thanks for the laugh this morning. That was hilarious.
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How sweet and how funny. What better entertainment is there than a two year old?
(But not in the middle of the night, as it seems that Em would do well to learn….)
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That was just gorgeous!
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Oh my gosh – this would make me think all sorts of terrible thoughts about my kids needing therapy as adults because we made them sleep in their own beds!
Oh. Sorry. Not Em… she will be well-adjusted and sane. Guaranteed.
That is a very creative little mind. And funny.
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As a Mama who’s trying to get a 2 1/2-year-old to sleep in his room, in his own bed all night long, this gave me such a good laugh!
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That is so funny. Thanks for sharing.
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