Ama v. Lee Lee

Mission (Im).........Possible:
From the beginning, Steph told me to choose my battles with Amelie. Its really not worth it to chide her for letting her food fall to the floor, however throwing toys and kicking are not tolerated behaviors. Today we took Amelie to Ez's house to play with her and DD's kids while the mommies had tea. Amelie was given meringues and a juice drink.

Two hours later, coming down from a sugar high Amelie worked herself into a tantrum over the hard boiled egg the gardener had for lunch. Steph and Andreas left me with the kids while they went on a shopping excursion. After several attempts at getting Amelie to eat her chicken and rice lunch she finally just fell asleep on the bed.

Even after her nap she still screamed for a hardboiled egg. When I told her no she demanded chips. An egg is one thing, but chips after a morning full of sulfites and sugar? no. way.

I chose my battle. I was determined to win.
30 minutes of crying later I had coaxed Ama to the table for some juice where a plate of rice garnished with tomatoes awaited her. She screamed for chips and then decided to eat the tomatoes. Asking for more I told her only if she ate some rice. She ate a bite of rice and I gave her another tomatoe. This bartering system worked! I got her to eat her nutritional lunch of corn, peas, rice, chicken, tomatoes, juice, and billtong (a bribe)!!!!!
1 point for LeeLee!