Bubby 1: Mommy 0

By now I'm sure you're all wondering how the Bedtime Wars are going. I wanted to come back and post a victory, and we really were so close, but alas I'm no longer sure. Over the last week we've had a pretty even split of no crying and crying nights but its so unpredictable. Here's the score:

Thursday: No Crying
Friday: Complete Melt Down
Saturday: No crying followed by a complete meltdown requiring a car ride to go to sleep
Sunday: No Drama at all
Monday: He figured out that he doesn't have to cry at all.

Thus Bubba 1, Mommy 0.

Because he's not quite 2 years old, and because I prefer even mangled English to ear piercing screams and kicking, I always and without fail respond to "Momma Please." I know this is not really a declarative sentence, but if you've ever had a not quite two year old you'd realize that even questions sound declarative and often lack a subject, verb and/or interrogative.

So tonight, Monday Night, Bubba went down without a fuss. Waited 5 or 6 minutes then called out "Momma Please." I, as I always do when he behaves so grown up, went and submitted to his will. 45 minutes later, he's asleep. We sang, we rocked, we lay in my bed, we rocked some more. He dozed, woke up and said random names and words completely out of context, then dozed some more. I tried to put him in his bed, "Momma No Night Night." Ummmm Ok, we rocked some more. Bubba glared up at me, eyes rolling back in his head, before finally passing out completely, dropping the Kermit the Frog and Fozzy Bear he'd been clutching the entire time, and allowed me to lay him in his own bed.

Yup, I'm pretty sure that makes the score Bubba 1 and Mommy zero.

The Bedtime Wars

I have been blessed with a child who has always gone to bed without a fight...until now. Somehow my adorable baby who used to ask to go to bed, who actually used to walk to his bedroom of his own volition and ask to go night night, has vanished and now fights to stay up regardless of how exhausted he is. At this very moment I can hear him slamming the lid to his hamper over and over deciding that his whine fest wont work. He practices his whiny faces in the mirror we have for him in the car to get them just right. If I could take video and drive I would because it is one of the funniest things I've ever seen. He hasn't yet climbed out of his crib, but if the bedtime wars continue I suspect it wont be long before he does.

He currently takes an entire menagerie to bed with him including a Curious George, a Nemo, a stuffed Dog and a Grover. He requires two blankets, one to scrunch up and one to lay under. He sucks his thumb and now he slams the hamper lid on his way out. My problem is he's stubborn. He comes by it honestly, his father and I are as stubborn as they come. I suppose when he's successful we'll call it tenacity, for now I just call it sleepy.

Whine & Cheese is just what it says, me whining and cheesing. Since this is a welcome post, I’ll stick to cheese. I heard a new phrase the other day that made me chuckle. That phrase was “food porn”. Food porn is pictures of delectable edibles that most of us will never eat. Cakes that are amazing and not like the drunken Count von Count I made for my son’s first birthday, but more like the Electric Mayhem tour bus with the entire Muppets cast hanging out of the windows.

And really, if you haven't watched the Muppet Movie lately you should. All sorts of releveant things in there, bollywood references, interspecies dating, and even Instagrow pills. But movin' right along....

This post was about Food Porn. Food Porn even has an actual website, FoodPornDaily.com where people post pictures of lovely looking food. The whole idea of food porn got me thinking though. Are we overdoing diets? Is this aq backlash against "Fat America"? Who knows for sure, but if you know me, then you know I have an opinion.

I think its some of both. American's have gotten fatter than ever. There's a website for that too, go figure! FatteningofAmerica.com is basically a sales site for a book that was written relating economic factors to weight gain. This is interesting to me in a couple of respects. One, if you look at literature from countries where famine is prevelant or even authors like Chaucer, you'll see that Fat is equated to Wealthy. So this idea of economic factors making people fat is not a new one. Second, and more interesting, is what impact does the economy have on the "Have Nots" of a society? Are our poorest members the fattest or thinest? That I don't have a website for, but the Oxford University Press did produce an article titled "Association between socioeconomic status, weight, age and gender, and the body image and weight control practices of 6- to 19-year-old children and adolescents." A short and pithy title if I do say so myself. The study, done by Jennifer A. O'Dea and Petere Caputi came to the conclusion that lower socioeconomic children tended towards overweight.

So, what do I think? I think size does matter. I think that our least expensive foods are the worst for you. I think food porn is awesome!