Sadie Part II

Like I mentioned last time, Sadie is a typical kindergartner.  She likes to have fun, she asks lots of questions, she has no filter (she says everything that is on her mind), and she's picky and opinionated.  Kids love or hate things.

Kids drive me crazy because they'll ask and ask and ask and ask you for something (food-wise), then you'll give it to them, they'll take one bite, and decide they don't really want it at that moment.

It was cold outside on Wednesday and Sadie thought it would be GREAT if we could have hot chocolate with our lunches.  I've got a big stash o' hot chocolate in my pantry, so when we got home I heated up some water for her and gave her a cup of hot chocolate with her corn dog.  She picked off the cornbread from the corn dog (what?! my favorite part!!) and had about 2 sips of hot chocolate and decided she was done.

Note to self: children are small and eat smaller portions.  Make half a cup of hot chocolate next time!

I remember when I was a kid and became big enough to (gasp!) eat my own whole Whopper Jr!  And I was really picky about it, too.  No pickle, no mayo, no onion.  (Now I also recognize that instead of ordering what to not have on the burger, I should've told the guy at the counter what I wanted: ketchup, tomato, and lettuce.)  Kids totally aren't rude about food, they just know what they want!  We get older and start keeping things like nutrition in mind, and start eating foods we don't necessarily like because we think they should be good for us, or we're trying to be polite, and we clean off our plates even if we're not hungry.

Something I really appreciate about Sadie is she'll tell me what she wants and doesn't want and she'll eat as much as she wants.  If she leaves food behind at lunch, she doesn't really bug me for more junk food (I make popsicles out of apple juice and still have a Darth Vader pinata head of candy) because she's actually not hungry, not just being obnoxious and picking at her peanut butter toast or whatever.

I like the lessons I'm learning with Sadie.  She's a really fun kid, and I hope she enjoys spending time with me, too.  She probably thinks I'm too busy, because ever since she's come back, I've just dragged her around in the car on errands with me.  If it gets a little warmer, we might go to the park, but ... ugh ... December ... winter ... not so much fun to be outside.  I love Christmas time, but I wish Spring could start right away in January!!