Dinner time with a toddler is not the most fun part of the day. We made it a little harder on ourselves on Saturday than it had to be. Mistake #1 – Robert came home from a jog on Saturday and decided to take Maxwell outside at 5:30 right when I was making his dinner. Mistake #2 – we basically dragged him back inside 15 minutes later to sit at the table and eat. After 15 minutes of fussing I finally gave up and let him go play back outside with Robert and GJ. I then thought – maybe we could set him up a little picnic table and he’d eat outside! Worth a shot, right?
As precious as these pictures are (I mean, really – his little hands in his lap?!), eating outside was actually Mistake #3. The minute it took me to take these pictures was the only minute he actually sat there and I think that was the only bite of food he actually took. He kept getting up to get a truck, or to move his plate to the stairs next to GJ, or to do anything except actually eat. So much for that! Maybe if we had a real picnic table he’d actually sit still and dine al fresco? I don’t know but this time, eating outside = fail. I won’t give up though because eating outside also = less clean up! 🙂
