Family Night

We had chicken strips and a rice side for dinner tonight.  Ate very early for us at 5:00pm.  Julia was having another night of tough eating.  Just looked at the food and was about to throw a fit.  We've been doing something that my friend Ed suggested.  Every time Julia throws a fit, I gently take her to her room, set her on her bed and softly say "When you are done throwing your fit, you can come down and join us."  Have only had to do it twice recently and it works like a charm!!!  She has come down both times and sat and eaten her whole dinner.

Tonight looked like we were going to head that way, but instead she was given a warning that she would go upstairs if she continued and she stopped.  Sat down and started eating her chicken.  In fact, ate quite a bit of it.  Then had trouble wanting to eat the rice, but finally had most of it.

I looked at Jeremy and said "Hey, it's gorgeous outside, we're finished early and we're all home.  Want to do a special treat with the girls and go eat Italian Gelato at Paciugo?"  He was totally game and the girls got super excited!!

Finished dinner and headed out to our favorite gelato place.  We got several samples each - so hard to choose!!  Julia wanted to try all of them and kept asking for "this one looks good!  Oh - I try this one?  Mmmmm.... I try this one?"

We each got our own gelato in a cup and went outside on the patio to eat it.  Beautiful weather!!  The girls were in great moods and we all enjoyed a special family treat.  Was a really neat moment for all of us and we laughed a lot and just had fun.

On the car ride home, Jeremy turned on the girls' favorite song:  Little Talks by "Of Monsters and Men."  The girls call it the "Hey Song" because it says hey so much.  We laughed so hard when the girls were yelling "Hey!" (partly because Julia said it in a low, monster sounding voice - hilarious!!)  Jeremy even wiped tears away his was laughing so hard.  The girls had quite a bit of gelato and it was still gorgeous outside.  They asked to go to the park so we stopped by the park before going home.  They played on the swings, slides, and ran around.  Was a very special family night.  One we'll talk about for a while...

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