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Not-so-forbidden foods

A friend once told me how her little sister always asked for a taste of their father's beer. One day, when her sister was six or seven, her father said, "Okay, you can have a sip," figuring she'd hate it and that would cure her. She loved it, of course, and after that he could never drink beer in front of her because she would go crazy begging for a sip.

You'd think that I would have learned from this cautionary tale.

"Cheese," said K this morning, putting his hand out. "This isn't cheese," I said. "This is butter." "Buh," he requested. "Buh. Buh. Buh." This has happened before, and I've explained that cheese is for eating and butter is for cooking. But I thought, I'll let him taste some, and then he'll understand. So I give him a little piece of butter. He puts it in his mouth. The hand immediately goes back out. "BUH! BUH. BUH. BUH." Oops.

And because I can be kind of slow --

While K was eating lunch, I poured a cup of coffee from the fresh pot that JW had put on when guests arrived. K kept pointing at my cup and asking for some. "This is Mommy's drink," I said at first. But then I thought, coffee is bitter and he won't like it, so I'll just give him a little to get him to stop bugging me. Here I think my strategy may actually have worked if I had given him black coffee, but I poured him some of the coffee from my cup. I like my coffee without sugar but heavily diluted with milk, almost a 1:1 ratio. K sucked down the teaspoon or so that I put in his cup and insisted on "MO. MO. MO. MO." I filled his cup with water and he was not satisfied.

"I can't believe I fed him butter and coffee. What kind of mother am I?" I said to CT. "Let him try a little vodka next," she suggested.

Full post as published by Magic Cookie on October 05, 2008 (boomark / email).