Recently we’ve had some problems with Noah and food. Our once chow-happy boy has not been eating well lately. Not at all. I’ve seen this kid polish off two hot dogs in less than a minute (sans bun, but still impressive). And he used to eat pounds of vegetables and fruit every day. Literally. Pounds.

Yesterday I had to run some errands, and I had the boys with me. I won’t even go into it, but it was rough. So we had a treat for dinner – Burger King. In the interest of full disclosure, I must admit that we actually did some advance recon and found that BK currently had the best toys for kids (Fantastic Four over surfing penguins). The boys each had the 4 nugget meal. And I made sure they ate in the car on the way home. Noah in particular. He killed 3 of his 4 nuggets before we got over the Rhinecliff Bridge (about 3 minutes drive time).

My theory – Noah will only eat in the car. I don’t know if it’s the motion of the car, some weird I’m-belted-in-so-now-I-can-eat-thing, just the general atmosphere in the back seat of the Jeep… I don’t know. But the kid loves to eat in the car, so we’re going to have to start taking him out for a drive when we need him to finish his vegetables, know what I mean.

Speaking of theories, Jake introduced one of his own on the way home. Apparently, if you have to pee, but are lucky enough to have a cold drink to put between your legs, your pee pee will actually freeze and you can last all the way home. No lie. You can freeze your pee with a tasty cold beverage from BK. I wish I knew that trick back in the day with Rosemary Caine when we were driving for hours and hours to gigs. I could have used a good frozen pee pee trick to ease the pressure more than once.