June 25 - A day that will live in infamy

A day that will live in infamy in our house at least! Zachary Michael Counts, majority vegetarian, CHOSE to eat meat tonight. He is a majority vegetarian b/c he will eat bacon (but who doesn't?!?!), and HEBREW NATIONAL (no cheaper variety - oh how we've tried) hot dogs. He will occasionally eat chicken or gr. beef if he is tricked. Like in Chili or a casserole or something. 90% of the time though, he finds it and picks it out.

Tonight a war was going to be waged, and Zachary turned the tables on us BIG TIME. I made a creamy mushroom sauce (from Germany!) that Art loves, to go over the rice we were having with meatloaf. I don't like mushrooms, but will deign to eat a few. Zach also does not like them, but we told him he had to eat 3 of them w/ his rice. He balked and balked, eating his carrots and tomatoes. Finally, fed up, I told him he could either eat the mushrooms, or EAT SOME MEAT (dun dun DUUUNNNN....).

Much to our SHOCK, Zachary chose the meatloaf. You could tell he didn't like it, but he pretended to. He said "YUMMMM" with a big grimace on his face. Apparently mushrooms are a fate worse than meat.

We don't know if this is going to usher in a new era of meat eating, or if he will put it off until he is 4. He knows that when he is 4, he will have to eat meat.

No picture to go of this momentous occasion, so here is a picture of a Zach-requested father/son outfit. :)



April 30th. It was a surprise to Art. Zach saw that DaU was wearing his yellow shirt and Zach, when I was putting clothes on him, asked for his yellow shirt too "just yike DaU" (the boy has no "Ls" in his language yet)