more veggies please

Isabella is a great veggie eater and always has been. The other night she put a heaping second helping on her plate of tomatoes and cucumbers.  Danny bet her that she could not finish them all.  Granted it was a lot of veggies but I would not bet $100 bucks against a 4 1/2 year old.  What did Isabella do?  She finished them all!  He tried getting off with giving her $1 but she quickly realized that it wasn't a one hundred dollar bill.  His mom and I insisted that he give her the money because it was him that started the whole thing.  He was a man of his word and did give her the money but being that he didn't have a hundred dollar bill on him, Isabella was happy to settle for the fifty that he did have.  Yesterday she went shopping and treated herself to some new pj's and a pair of shorts.  That will teach him to challenge her!

Dinner gone wild!

Well the time of wild, food throwing meal times has finally arrived!  With Isabella I never had any of these issues.  She was the neatest little eater.  Nothing was ever on her face or high chair.  She just got fussy when she was full.

Mr.Donato on the other hand is a true little boy.  This picture says it all.  Every day the mess gets bigger and bigger.  He swats at the spoon like he's trying to kill a fly.  He brushes his hair with whatever is on his tray.  This morning he used the grape jelly on his English muffin as hair gel.  I mean, why not right?

As annoying as his little habit has become, I love to see his little personality emerge.  He is a very stubborn boy who knows what he wants.  He likes to make noise and the louder the better.  As his first birthday approaches I can't wait to see what else this little boy has in store for us.