Okay, I get it now.
We’ve all seen them. Pictures of kids eating spaghetti. Making a total and complete mess. Getting more food on themselves and their surroundings than actually in their mouths.
I never understood the concept. I would just look at those pictures and think, “Well, yeah. Cute kid and all, but that is a bona fide mess. I’ll never let my kid do that.”
And I didn’t. But then Bonny Annie and Dirty Harry have never liked spaghetti. Never. So the opportunities for a noodle-and-sauce-free-for-all were limited. Not that I cared or thought I was missing anything.
Until now…
Oh…when you have a kid who likes spaghetti, and is really getting into it at dinner time…well, it is kinda cute.
You find yourself unconcerned about the stains and the fingernails and the sauce that’s now matted into his eyebrows. You just keep laughing and snapping pictures and ladling more spaghetti onto the highchair tray. Like an idiot.
All for the sake of cute. Sheesh.
And then you wonder, as he slurps noodle after noodle through his rosebud little lips, “Whose the real “sucker” here? Me or him?”
Don’t answer that, okay?
Gwyneth just finished saying, “Oh, that baby is messy. Is that baby Jack Henry?? He’s very messy!!!”
Very cute pictures!! Now off to a bath with him!
Well, at least you allowed him to make a mess! I did this with my first and second but now with the third I have a very hard time letting go and allowing him to make a mess with his food. It stresses me out to watch him make the mess that I will soon have to clean up… or maybe not til the next morning when I have a fussy baby on my hands who needs to eat but his high chair is still a huge mess from the night before. Yep, that’s what happens when I allow him to make a mess, it sits and crusts and greets me first thing in the morning.
ROFL! I remember those days! Now it’s only a problem when I make bbq beef ribs for Guy. ;o)
That’s fantastic! So adorable! Thanks for sharing. As to your question, it’s probably a toss, unless you made Annie clean up as penance. I’m still laughing!!!
Sweet child, sweet story…but look at those EYELASHES!!!!
Yep, been there, done that, but I usually strip off the kid to just a diaper.
I did mention I wanted those clothes back, right?!?