Pickled Eggs

This girl will try anything once.

She didn't eat the yolk (never does) but now she also likes pickled eggs.

Grandpa didn't think she would try it.

Stephanie vs Jalapeno

Daddy to Meredith: "I'll give you a quarter if you eat this jalapeno. You have to chew it up and then swallow it."

(Meredith declined.)

Stephanie: "I want a quarter!"

Daddy: "OK. But you have to chew up this jalapeno and then swallow it."

The child grabbed the jalapeno, chewed it up, and swallowed it without any indication that it was hot or otherwise untasty.

Daddy: "Stephanie, you are AWESOME!"

And Here We Go Again

Seriously. This girl...

Like she's not already the biggest for her age of my kids. And I swear she's grown several inches lately but I haven't gotten around to actually measuring her yet. So I know she's going through a growth spurt. But she's started sneaking food. And it's not just an occasional, every-once-in-a-while thing. It's every day, several times a day. If I give her and Philip a sandwich for lunch, she will grab his and take a bite out of it while she is eating hers. The other day I made cookies and let the girls each go get one but three were missing. She stole Meredith's Easter Bunny (yes, I know it's not Easter yet but some things are done on 'Grandma' time) while she was supposed to be napping and ate all of it but the ears - after she ate all of hers. She is constantly asking for snacks and whining and acting pitiful when she doesn't get them.

Yesterday, she ate over 1/2 of a big can of SpeghettiO's and Meatballs by herself. At least that was "real" food - meaning actually dinnertime. I'm not so worried about how much she eats at actual meal times.

John and I are starting to worry that she going to get an eating disorder at FOUR!

Oh, and then today on Yahoo!, I see this: US kids moving toward ‘constant eating’.

I know she's going to be a big girl. I know it. She is never going to be petite. And I don't care about that but I don't want her getting addicted to food.

Why is it EVERYTHING with her?

Haircut

New hair style.

This is Saturday morning - helping me make chocolate pancakes.

I'd post the recipe but no one really liked them.

We'll try another recipe one day.

New Foods

There are some new kids at the daycare. They are Arabic and the older one doesn't speak much English yet and the younger one is a baby. They also do not eat pork products so dinnertime has had to be revamped a little bit.

One day Ms A got an Arabic meal from the grocery store up the street and another day she made lamb stew.

The Arabic kids wouldn't eat it.

Stephanie and Philip ate every bite.

Anybody got a recipe for lamb stew?