My son made a delicious meal of chicken wings, asparagus and salad. Sometimes his 2 year old doesn't eat a lot of her dinner. She was obviously tired. He decided to pull the meat off the bone to make it easier to eat. It looked like a Mt. Vesuvius of tears would erupt at any moment. And then she noticed...
"dad, what is that?"
"A toothpick"
"Why do you have a pooch tick?"
"Clean the chicken out of my teeth."
"Can I have one ?"
"When you eat your dinner"
Nana interrupts,
"You'll need chicken teeth first."
Ok, down goes the first bite of chicken.
"Now?"
"Show me your chicken teeth."
She quickly opens her mouth.
"Nope, not enough chicken, you know if you eat your asparagus it will make your
chicken teeth look green and we can see it better."
Down goes an asparagus spear, and the mouth goes open.
"Need more chicken."
Back and forth,
"Hmmmmmmm. More!"
"Would you rather have a toothpick or floss?"
"FLOSS!"
"Almost green enough, more asparagus !"
"Done? Floss?"
"Let's go get some."
Yay for chicken teeth and floss. Another tummy full, contented parents and an amused Nana.
That is too cute! I loved this line, "It looked like a Mt. Vesuvius of tears would erupt at any moment."
ReplyDeleteLove the "chicken teeth"! So many stories out there with your new granddaughter :-) It sounds like you should be very proud of your son - the Dad.
ReplyDeleteI am dying over here with the chicken teeth. I will definitely have to try that one. We are currently getting Maddie to eat so that she can get strong and beat Daddy at the matching game. The things we do...
ReplyDeleteI WISH I could have tried this with Michael.. He would have been like, "Pa lease.. who you trying to kid?" haha.. I had my ways though. Nad I don;t think she will be able to be bribed with flos and tooth picks for much longer. So milk it while you can. This just too cute. You HAVE to begin writing down these conversations more often. She is going to crack up when she's older. They are so precious. :)
ReplyDeleteA very clever nana! So great that you were there to help out! Love the way you used dialogue to retell this story!
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