Monday, July 20, 2009

family night out

Tonight we went out to dinner together after a visit to Bass Pro Shop, where Dennis played on the display pontoon boats. He picked out the one he liked best (the one that had a bench behind the steering wheel so that he and Daddy could BOTH drive) but still wanted to get on and off all the boats in the place. He watched the fish feeding with excitement and then told us he wanted to go eat. So that's what we did, and he ate a huge dinner of hamburger, fries, carrots, corn, applesauce, and strawberry shortcake. He did away with the bun, though, doesn't care for hamburger buns at all! And he didn't eat whole servings of any of that (the veggies were from my meal, actually), but I'm pleased that he ate so well. We're entering that phase of toddlerhood where it's difficult to get him to eat anything.

He has started to get angry when we don't pay attention to his every little utterance. We'll be talking to each other and he'll all of a sudden yell over us "LISTEN!!!!". So we listen, to silence, and when we start talking again, he'll repeat it. Then we'll ask him what we're supposed to be listening to, and he'll pick a song and tell us to sing it. I suppose these are early versions of our future family car conversations!

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