More Chicken, Please
September 18th, 2007I will never understand how it is that children are born knowing how to lie. Before they can even read, they know how to get out of trouble, or get something they want, and they know how to be believable!
Tonight, Chris went to town and got Yi Cuisine and brought it home. I gave the girls some of the soup and a little rice and two peices of seseme chicken. Meanwhile, the TV from their bedroom is still blaring with cartoons. Lydia ate most of her soup, and her chicken, and a couple of bites from her rice. I asked if she wanted more, and she said no, she was full, and dismissed herself back to the cartoons. In about 20 minutes she came tiptoeing back through the kitchen, “Mommy, I want some more chicken.” So I gave her three big peices and sat back down. 10 minutes later, “I’m still hungry, I want some more chicken.” So I gave her a few more pieces. She finished it all up and sat on the couch with me, and was asleep in about 30 minutes.
It makes me worry that she may be going to bed hungry at times, because she becomes consumed with the anxiety of missing her precious cartoons. But I suppose that as long as she is healthy, and happy, then she’ll be fine. After all, she’s proven that she knows how to ask for more, even though she was supposedly full. 
Could it be that whether she was hungry or not was not her thought at the moment, she wasn’t hungry because she had eaten but she could hear the tv and wanted nothing more than to be back there watching it. At a point when one part was over she realized she wasn’t full so she asked for more chicken. We all know how what we will put off instead of eating – sleeping – etc., why would we think a child any different:)