Anyway, I was busily going on about "this is the third time I have asked you to sit down, you'll be off to the thinking spot, blah, blah, blah" when I heard him say: "Look Mum!"
As I put on my best cranky face, he continued with, "I have made a turtle out of my peas".
Despite myself, my eyes were drawn down to his plate and 'lo and behold, I found myself face to face with a rather perfect looking pea turtle.
It made me smile. Melt. Defuse.
Geez it is hard to stay cross at someone as gorgeous as he is!
What's a Mum to do?
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Kids. They know how to get around you. Dardo did something like that to me the other day; I was trying to get him to sit still so I could get him in his pjs, but he kept prancing around and I was losing my patience. And then he reaches up and starts lightly tickling me, the same way I do to him when he's cranky.
I love a pea turtle. He's too cute. But the frustration levels of the eating thing are also something I understand. Sigh. Motherhood.
So cute! A pea turtle!
I guess the next step is to say "and are you going to be the giant shark and just eat that pea turtle right up this minute?" Or something. ?
I don't ever remember reading in those parenting books how you're supposed to maintain a straight face with some of your children's antics. I swear, they drive me nutso at times, but they're so darn cute! :)
There's naught a mother can do in the face of extreme cutekidity but cave and enjoy it.
aww, thats adorable. Immpossible to stay mad when that happens.
I just tell mine: Don't play with your food unless it plays with you first!
That's so cute. I'm guessing it wouldn't work to suggest that eating the peas would mean there was a turtle in his tummy? ;) I have bad memories of eating cold peas as a child. Eventually I realised if I swallowed them whole I couldn't taste them!
So sweet!
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