Oranges = GREAT toys

E has this huge problem when it comes to meal time - she wails and wails and WAILS while I'm preparing meals because she sees food but she doesn't have it.  No matter what kind of food, drink, or toys I give her to try and pacify her, she stands in the middle of the kitchen wailing while trying to clutch at my leg so I'll pick her up and give her the food I'm preparing.  It's mind-numbingly frustrating.  So, last night when I was preparing dinner for her and L, I opened up the fridge to get something and E pulled out a bag of oranges.  I was so annoyed with her crying already that I just let her take it and run.  I didn't hear a peep out of her for almost 15 minutes.  She climbed up on the loveseat in the family room and played with that damn bag of oranges like it was the best gift she'd ever been given.  She was smiling, laughing, cooing, shaking it, trying to open it up, and then running around the house with it.  Had I known that oranges were the solution, I would have given her a bag months ago!  Sheesh, it's strange what works sometimes for kids...

Wandering around with oranges (2-7-2012)

MINE!  ALL MINE!  (2-7-2012)