Ugh, longest battle ever

Corbin was so well behaved at church and lunch today, but it just couldn't last. He was SO whiny after we got home from running a couple errands mid-afternoon. First, he wanted milk, and he wanted it NOW. Even though we kept telling him to wait, he'd ask again just one minute later. Over and over. Finally we decided that 5:15 was early enough for milk and dinner, and asked him to say "please" in return for his milk. After about ten minutes of crying and repeated attempts to get him to say please (which he almost always does right away), he finally did the sign language and we put him in his high chair. The milk was drunk within a couple minutes, but he wouldn't touch his veggies (which he normally eats just fine). After several minutes of complaining, he asked Mommy to "help" him pick up the bowl (suction cupped to the tray). I told him no, he couldn't pick up the bowl. So as soon as I turned my back, he wrenched it up with brute force, dumping the entire contents out onto his tray. So we told him that he couldn't get down until he put them all back in the bowl. Again, not a new rule. He's done it many times before, though not with so many little veggies. He cried and cried, we were firm, and it just went on and on. At one point when he picked up one and put it in, we made a big deal out of it. That convinced him to do several more, but for some reason he quit and went back to crying. Eventually, he finally tried it again with the same result. So Mommy and Daddy cheered for every single veggie he dropped into the bowl. By the time he got out of the chair, it was 90 minutes after he'd gotten in. Aaaargh! Definitely not his finest moment. We also made him pick up the ones he'd accidently gotten on the floor before he could go play, which he did without hesitation. I guess it was just a test that he learned he couldn't win. He did put a few in his mouth along the way, but he's going to be a very hungry kid by the time breakfast gets here tomorrow.

Yesterday I found out about a neat site at www.LibraryThing.com where you can build a database of all the books you own and find recommendations from other people with similar books. You can put in 200 for free, so I'm making a separate list for Corbin. Then relatives can see what he already owns, and I could even look up the list on my mobile while we're at the bookstore to prevent any repeats from coming home. It's a pretty cool idea, if I can ever find the time to get it totally updated.