July 24, 2006
Peanut M&M Lover
Here's the setup: Peter loves M&M's and sometimes ends up leaving an open bag on the coffee table overnight until I find them and put them up the next morning. So, this happened - he left half of a 1 lb. bag open on the coffee table overnight.
What happens next: Molly wakes up before we do on Saturday morning and seems to think that this is her special breakfast food that we graciously left out for her (kind of like cookies for Santa). She proceeds to eat the rest of the bag (minus a few strays) while mommy and daddy are snoozing.
What we didn't know: (Keep in mind that we didn't know about this yet) Molly wouldn't eat the whole day. We kept trying to force feed her and put her in time-out for not eating her food at the table. She didn't take a nap that day and had way too much energy. We couldn't figure it out.
Until...
We discovered the almost empty bag of Peanut M&M's on the coffee table. Peter asks me, "Did you eat the M&M's today?" I said, "No, that's not South Beach friendly, what would I do that?" Then we looked at each other and started busted out laughing because we figured out that Molly had eaten almost a half a pound of M&M's.
