Negotiation

Why does ALMOST everything in life have to be a negotiation or bribery?!?

For example.....
Breakfast today for The King:
Egg white omelet
2 sausage links
Grapes

For someone who isn't a huge "meat" eater, he sure loves SAUSAGE! He downed his two links like that (snap!) and was already asking for "MO" before we had even begun ours! Therefore, the rest of breakfast was negotiation and bribery... you eat those eggs and you MAY have some more sausage... and so on and so on.

Then there was....
Two nights ago we had crab cakes for dinner and he ate almost 1/2 of my husband's. Well, guess who bought  him his own crab cake and he wouldn't eat it! OK in his defense it was a different style/brand, but come on you are 1.5 why do you know the difference!!! 

And the most worst and recent.....
He had a playdate with a friend and would NOT eat his lunch! After my husband tried to explain to him for 20 minutes you can go when your lunch is done. Clearly reinforcments are needed, it just wasn't working... so I came in and tried to show him what Dadddy meant.

Me: Do you want to go play with H?
King: YESSSS

Me: OK then you have to put on this SOCK
King: OK
Me: But before I put this sock on you have to take a bite of THIS

And sure enough that kid took one of the biggest bites I had seen in a long time! This continued through each sock, shoe, pant leg, arm hole, shirt, jacket, and hat until the meal was done!