The Fortune Cookie was Correct!

Last night we ordered Chinese food for dinner. Moses was a little grumpy. He had just woken up from a long nap. He didn't really want to eat his food. He really wanted his fortune cookie though. I mean, it was just sitting there in front of him enticing him the whole time.

We kept telling him, "You can eat your cookie after you eat your dinner."

Every time he would whine and reply, "I just want to eat mine cookie!"

This went on for, oh, about fifteen minutes or so.

It was finally decided that perhaps he just wasn't hungry. Perhaps we just gave up because it had been a long tiring day for us too. Joseph and I had driven two hours to Sonoma and back earlier that afternoon, hence the take-out for dinner.

Well, the rest of us had finished eating and we were all eyeing our own fortune cookies. We relented and let Moses have his. It read:

People find it difficult to resist 

your persuasive manner.

We just laughed. Then laughed some more.

You see, we try really hard to not give in to tantrums and the like and we do a pretty good job at it these days. Moses certainly was not throwing anything like a tantrum. He was just tired. A little whiny, perhaps, but nothing terribly stressful. 

He was just our tired, sweet little guy. Very persuasive indeed. 

Besides, how could you say "No" to a face like that?