During my pregnancy, I constantly craved fruits and veggies... which has resulted in the boy LOVING all fruits and veggies (YEAH!!!!). I have loved the fact that I don't have to battle it out with him to eat the things he needs to - just to eat in general is a task (playing can be so much more important). His most favorite food is by far tomatoes - taoes as he says it (sounds just like tomatoes minus the m - step up from what he used to call them, toes).
Recently, we went to the grocery store and he didn't want anything to do with being in the cart. The place was slow enough and I had not much else on my to-do list, so I thought why not let him "help" me push the cart and run around a little bit - that way we'll both be happy at the end of the shopping excursion. Everything went fine until we got to the produce section, and he caught sight of the tomatoes. I turned around and grabbed one of the plastic produce bags, and when i turned back to Jack he was happily chomping down on one of the tomatoes that was in a low bin. "Yum!" he proudly says to me and goes in for another bite. I quickly get it away from him and try to tell him that we need to pay for things before we eat them, and I put the bit tomato into the bag... and before I can do anything else, he's at it again & this time double-fisting it. After several more tries to get him to stop, I finally was able to corral him away from the tomatoes long enough to get the now screaming toddler into the shopping cart. We left the grocery store not very happy, and with SIX additional tomatoes.
