Best. Mommy. Ever.

You might remember about a month ago when I blogged about my greatest failure as a parent.  My inability to get my son to eat a cupcake on his birthday.  Well, it’s only been a month, and things have really turned around here.  Just yesterday, almost a month to the day after his first birthday, Oscar ate his first chocolate cupcake and screamed for more when it was finished.  I gave him one of those little cupcakes that come three in one container in those 100 calorie packs (yeah, can you tell this is not an advertisement?).  He scarfed down one and yelled when we wouldn’t give him another one.  He actually licked his fingers afterward to get the frosting off.  It was a beautiful moment.

I feel so successful.  Sure, Oscar’s teeth are rotting from all the sugar I’ve given him in the past month, sure he might now have a pre-cursor to heart disease, but it was worth it.  I’m feeling invincible right about now. What’s next?  I’m thinking trans fats.  He doesn’t seem to have developed a taste for them yet, but just give me a month.

August 26, 2008 - Posted by Oscar and Etta's mom | Cake, Parenting