Feb 7th, 2006
Oh yeah!
There’s really no substitute for getting to watch the daily development of a child. You just can’t get a sense of how quickly they pick up concepts and knowledge unless you can see the day in and day out changes, truly mindboggling.
So that’s my high brow preface to a decidedly low brow story, but the point applies.
We’re having dinner a few nights ago (so far we’ve kept to our resolution of eating dinner together without any distractions every night, with very few exceptions - never any TV on, although Colin consistently points to the radio and yells “ON!”, so we indulge that one), and Colin was hard at work on a few pieces of cheese. Usually he’ll play with one piece of food, casually eat another - he takes a while to eat.
Not this night, he was on a mission. I hardly had to distract him to get him to eat, he was wolfing it down as fast as I could give it to him. After he’d polished off a big chunk of this cheddar, and was continuing to nibble on it while we ate, Jess let me know that he’d downed a lot of cheese earlier in the day, as well as a few other “binding”-type foods, to which I replied (to Jess of course):
“He’s not going to poop for days”
Without missing a beat, Colin yells out:
“GOOD!”
Classic.