Last One!!!

He’s obsessed!

This morning I served eggs, turkey sausage links, strawberries and blueberries, waffles, and toast.  We all ate and then Dwight eyed the plate sitting by the stove. 

“Mom, can I have another sausage link?”  He asked.  Then, when he noticed two, he asked, “Can I have two sausage links?”

You know why he really wanted two, right?  Because if he just took one, there would still be one left, meaning he didn’t eat the last one.  That would drive him crazy.

So I said, “Dwight, why don’t you just skip over the first sausage and grab the second one, then it will be the last one and you can say you ate the last one?”  This logic didn’t work, because obviously there’d still be a sausage on the plate and someone else would no doubt get to eat it!

So he asked me two more times if he could have both of them.  And two more times I told him no.  There is no way he could still be hungry, with 2 eggs, a waffle, 2 slices of toast, sausage links and fruit, how could he still be hungry?  No, he just wanted the last sausage link.

I should have gotten up and grabbed one of the links and eaten it so it would have appeased him, but I didn’t think about that.  Instead, I was mean and denied him the last sausage link.  “You can have one.”  I said.  “That’s it.”  Besides, I figured one of his brothers would no doubt request another sausage link since they only got one in the first place!

I was wrong.  Nobody else wanted the link.  So when I asked Dwight to make sure all the left-overs got put up in the fridge, do you know what he did?  He ate the sausage link.  He couldn’t resist.  It was the last one, sitting on the plate, just begging him to scarf it down.  I think the fact that he was denied the link three times made it all the more irresistable. 

And I won’t lie, it kind of irritated me that he disobeyed me and ate it anyway.  Petty, I know, but I’m not much of a morning person!  What can I say?  I had to laugh though.  He’s so (obsessive) compulsive about these things, it’s almost entertaining in a way.  He just couldn’t let that last piece of sausage sit in the fridge alone.  No, it had to be his. 

Don’t worry, I’m already planning out my revenge.  For dinner one night, I’m going to have a “Last One” theme.  I’m going to serve the kids dinner, but there will only be one of each thing I serve.  One french fry, one roll, one green bean, one apple slice, one chicken nugget, one grain of rice.  That’s right.  Just one.  And I’ll watch him as he goes crazy watching his siblings eat the one thing he didn’t choose.  Maybe I’ll even film it for your viewing pleasure!  Oh yes.  This is going to be awesome!

See?  I know how to have fun with my kids!  It may not be their idea of fun, but it’s fun none the less!  Hey, you know what they say – “If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em!”