Today Cara learned that every rule has an exception. Most of the time sharing is great, it causes harmony in our house. I'm always telling the kids to share...but NOT when it comes to food. EVERYONE in the house knows that Cara's food is Cara's food period!
Today at lunch I was muti-tasking, cleaning the kitchen while taking orders for lunch. Both Cody and Kirstin wanted a sandwich, Cara wanted a bagel...no problem.
Cara is the fastest eater I have ever seen, that kid can finish off a plate before I can...she is that fast. If you ever see this kid in a eating contest put your money on her, she will make you rich.
So anyways, before I had the chance to finish cleaning up the kitchen Cara was done, with a funny smile. She informed me that she shared a little with Kirstin. How weird is that I thought to myself. First Kirstin and Cara really do not do anything nice for each other however they have been playing very nice today together. So maybe, but I really did not believe it.
"So how much did you give her?" I said "Oh, just two bites" Cara replied.
So no biggie right...Wrong, I guess those two bites were jammed packed with all the carbs from Cara's lunch because 30 minutes before it was time to check her for pm snack time. She came tripping over to me "MOOOOOM I'm Loooow" and falls to her knees.
To top it all of Cara had been playing in water, so her hands were all pruny and wrinkled and wet and it was nearly impossible to get a good size blood bubble without it running down the lines of her wrinkled fingers.
Frustrating to say the least!!
3 tries and 5 seconds later...3.6mmols
YUCK!! and Good catch Miss Cara, but I'm still trying to figure out what in the hell she did with her bagel? because I know my math was not off...this time!!!
9 comments:
Ugh! Sharing is a hard thing to 'master' but to have to compartmentalize what is and isn't shared is a challenge to say the least!!
Bug always wants to share her snack with Bean...and like your girls, their moments of 'nice' can be few and far between. For the most part, one or two goldfish or teddy-grahams aren't going to make or break a BG so I try to encourage the 'nice.'
Those must have been two HUGE bites!! Maybe encouraging 'nice' isn't always a good thing!! ;)
A little tweaking -- yep! It's so hard though to teach them to "share, but not share or share, but not too much."
I can envision the pruny finger and blood running, instead of bubbling! Ack!
We struggle with this one - I keep reminding the boys that it's okay to share you just need to show me what you're sharing first. We usually have the problem that the older one is sharing with the younger and then the little dude ends up HI and not in the friendly way.
I felt so bad teaching Joe "no sharing" of his food when he was little...it felt like it went against everything we should be teaching our children.
Good catch CARA!!! AND next time don't be so damn nice to your sister! Cyber-Aunt-Reyna said so!!! xoxo
Oh Sweet Girl - - - dislike - dislike - dislike that low.
That is so hard!! My girls know not to eat Nate's food but we have the opposite problem-o. Nate likes to grab things off of their plates. And - - -he's fast too!!
MWAH!! Hugs and Kisses, SW!
My kiddos are farmiliar with this one as well. In fact this year my kindergarten daughter got in "trouble" for taddling on another student. It involved two students sharing a snack. My daughter was really onto the fact that there should be no sharing of food. Oops!
Poor Kid! She's so dang cute!
Lows just suck! It's sad that the most basic of things that people take for granted everyday, are not an option for kids (and sometimes adults) with D! You're such a good mama! She's a lucky kid.
PS- I had the most awesome dream the other night that had Cara in it! I wrote about it on my blog...
Have a great weekend!
crikey!!! one time i was out shopping and i hadnt noticed my daughter (d-childs older sibling) had infact eat the crackers, biscuits and chocs from under the pram and was sucking the last drops from the juice box. I was livid when the meter read 2.3 and there was no more hypo food left!! argh.. do not share, unless i say so!!
Such a strange dynamic.
It's hard with outsiders too. Other kids come over and want a snack -- but it's not a good time for a snack -- everyone just thinks you're the meanest mom EVer...blech.
My girls do pretty good at not sharing, but I think it has more to do with the GF part of our journey and nothing else.
Well, I'm happy she caught that miserable low.
And...I'm happy to see that the two girls had a good sister-day.
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