Silent Stealthy and Greedy

The name of the game has always been let's see who takes after whom with the children. Of course, certain stereotypes have been established. Evan looks like Mommy but Baby J's got Mommy's temperament. The finer strokes of the brush have shown that Baby J's as finicky about food as Mommy is and is possibly (and this is NOT a good thing) as predisposed as Mommy was to eating disorders seeing that all it takes is a look a food put in front of her that she doesn't fancy and she will play-gag. Sometimes so realistically, she actually does regurgitate. Evan on the other hand, has Daddy's penchant for salty snacks. Especially, pop corn.

The boy has on, not one but two occasions been caught literally with his hand in the cookie, well, in this case, pop corn jar.

Our helper makes marvellous pop corn. Most of the family, read: sans me, loves the popcorn. So, there are big containers filled with the snack on the coffee table. For the longest time, we've been seeing the boy take the containers that are almost larger than he is and hurl them onto the floor repeatedly. We put it down to his destructive phase until one day, there was silence. And when all goes silent, there is usually cause for concern. An immediate search and rescue, well, more search than rescue mission elicited the discovery of the boy, sitting quietly on the ground, surrounded by popcorn, munching quite happily.

Two days later, when Grandpa dozed off while watching the boy, he was up to no good again. When the silence got so loud that Grandpa woke up with a start, the boy was no where in sight. This time, he was found sitting in a small alcove that was hidden from everything in plain sight. And again, he had the popcorn container with him and this time, he was caught red-handed as can be, with his hand in the container.

Of course, this brought about the draining of his water bottle because the popcorn was salted, just the way Daddy liked it and our fervent wish to catch it on video. Yesterday, we managed to. The minute the boy got a whiff of what was being cooked in the kitchen, our little sniffer pointer dog was at the kitchen door making grunty noises. When our helper brought out the container, the boy trailed her with as much finese as a bad undercover cop intent on being discovered.

Here it is. And watch out for the bit where Baby J is actually in cahoots with him and distracts Daddy so that the Boy can actually do what he wants to do off camera.



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