Sugar High

Most people who know me well know that I obsess a little about my kids eating habits. Having battled with my sluggishly slow metabolism most of my life, it was imperative to me that my kids learn how to eat well from a young age, (including junk food in moderation, as I had no intention of cutting it out completely from our lives), all the while trying not to make a big deal out of it, or put an unhealthy amount of focus on foods. And for the most part, we do well with this. Lots of whole grains, tons of veggies and fruit, healthy proteins. Annie will even eat raw onions and peppers for snacks. But, of course, these kids also inherited my sweet tooth. Which means there are some mornings when I leave the room for a minute, and my kids find and sneak into my hidden M&M stash, and Ellie drools chocolate all over half my bed.
I find such incidents are a good reminder that it's time to wash all the bedding again.





Then Annie wanted in on the picture taking, so she started striking random poses and making faces.

(She's shoving a Starburst in her mouth with one hand . . . which was also in the candy stash, and probably left over from Easter, so it may have been a little hard . . . and has M&Ms in the other.)