Quickie but goodie!

13 Sep 2011 1 Comment

by mytymaker in family, kids, my journey for all to see Tags: grocery shopping, lazy kids, picky eaters, spongebob

I picked Ty up from daycare yesterday and the first thing he tells me is “Mom…did you know that watching Spongebob makes you lazy!”.  I’m looking at him and my daycare explains to me about a news report/study that had been done on how some cartoons these days cause the brainwaves of children to respond differently than other cartoons.  I would totally buy into this….it would explain why every time Ty turns on Spongebob I’m falling asleep!

Ty and I went grocery shopping last night and before we went I asked him to help me make a grocery list.  The first three things he told me we had to get were 1)Milk 2)Broccoli 3)Corn on the cob….yay!  I couldn’t believe that it wasn’t 1)Ramen 2) Pizza 3) Goldfish….especially my picky eater of a son.

So once at the grocery store we decide to take a little detour through the seafood and meat department and looked at all of the products….even though we weren’t buying any.  We had fun looking at the crabs, crayfish, octopus, squid—and yes he mentioned “Like Squidward” and then moved on to chicken, cow and finally the pork section.  We made gross faces at the packaged snout, tails and tongue and I filled him in on how people use bone to cook.  Granted we would never eat any of the packaged pork products, but it was fun to look at them.

Moving on to the remainder of our shopping experience, I ask him “What would you like for dinner?” fully expecting one of the answers that I thought he would give to my shopping list question.  Once again my son surprises me with “I think spaghetti sounds good”…WHAT?  Ok…who has kidnapped my adorable and smart son and replaced him with this smart, adorable child with a healthy appetite?  I have been waiting for this day most of his life….I’m just hoping that this pattern continues!

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