Monday, July 26, 2010

A Blueberry Trick Gone Awry

Henry and the girls love blueberries. The other day I gave them all a handful with their snack. Then a second handful. And then a third.

I'm all for the kids getting plenty of food - and blueberries are as good as anything. But there's a point where I fear that their bodies just can't tolerate the quantity. So I started doling out blueberries one by one.

Instead just handing them out, I decided to do the old "coin trick" where I palm a blueberry and then find it behind the kids' ear. The girls tolerated my tomfoolery for the purpose of getting more blueberries. Henry, on the other hand, was thrilled to learn that his head was full of blueberries and that they can be plucked endlessly from his ear.


Thrilled, that is, until they stopped coming.


He tried to get them.


And tried.


And tried.



It's sad. More funny than sad, of course. But I still feel sorry for him. Tonight I saw him pulling at his ear after we put him to bed. In a way, I feel like I violated his trust. But he is two. It's probably time he learns that his head isn't full of blueberries.

8 comments:

  1. hee hee hee hee, aww, poor henry!

    sometimes i think my boys' heads are full of blueberries. sigh.

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  2. Poor little thing! Thanks for the post - we have missed you but know that you are being Mr Mom and everything else while Heather is "cooking" Penelope.

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  3. hilarious -- therapy later, for sure.

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  4. Hysterical. Poor dude. I will never look at a blueberry the same way again.

    By the way---I am the same way with 2 of our kids. They will eat fruit all the live long day and than BAM. Not a pretty sight.

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  5. Oh...that is just too funny! And too sad! When Tyler found out that I had purchased his Christmas presents and not Santa Claus, he asked me incredulously, "you mean you LIED to me?" Boy did I feel about {this} high....

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  6. Oh my word! I'm bookmarking this post! literally laughed aloud on this one!

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  7. pics of penelope, please?

    best to the whole lovely fam from blogreaderland ~

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