Mama Had a Come Apart

The past few months I have been fighting with Suzy to eat supper. She refuses to sit in a high chair and eat supper. She throws her food in the floor, gives it to Lola, or demolishes whatever is on her tray. She, then, throws a ROYAL FIT if I make her stay in the chair while I eat. I have spent most of my suppertimes holding her, standing up to eat, or just not eating. It has gotten to the point of just ticking me off. I had a heck of a time with her one night, and woke up the next morning on a mission. My mission was some training for Suzy. Not only did she act like that at home, but we couldn’t go out to eat because she would act like a nut in a restaurant too. I sent Mimi, Memaw, Gigi, Laurie, and KK an email about all the new rules that were fixing to be enforced with little miss “throw a fit”.  Some of them included: she will sit in her high chair until we are ALL finished with supper, she will get in trouble for throwing food, we will ignore her fits of rage, etc…. So far we have been doing pretty good at keeping up the rules for Suzy.

 I have also been trying to take her out to dinner more often. We have been to The Boiling Point, El Charro, and Windy City Grille. That may not sound like much, but I never took her anywhere past 5 PM before this “Coming to Jesus Meeting”.

Papaw and Suzy at The Boiling Point. 

Eating at her "big girl" table... I told you... I've tried everything.

Yummy green beans.

On the patio at Windy City Grille, Como. It took 3 hours to eat there one night, we had to find stuff to do to keep her entertained. 

Marinara sauce from her cheese sticks! She is a condiment lover. 

 She had been to a restaurant twice, she acted like a nut both times, and I vowed to never take her back. She is doing better, but is still not great. I talked to my friends that have children about how her acting so terribly made me feel. They told me that it was normal for those feelings. I was embarrassed, I didn’t want to be “that mom” that couldn’t control her child, I didn’t want to ruin everyone else’s dinner, I didn’t want people to stare at me….. They told me to GET OVER IT. I am trying very hard to follow their advice, but it is hard!! 

While I am off this summer I will try to do more. She goes to bed at 7:00, so it is hard to do much. I hope this summer her bedtime shifts to a later time, so she will sleep later in the mornings! Wish us luck.

I still let her have fun, too! This is a brownie batter bowl. Mimi would never let Casey and I have the bowl... "The raw eggs will give you worms", was her excuse.

She loved it. 

Condiments and chocolate--- Suzy's faves!