Rice in the Flowers

This evening's dinner didn't please either of our two littlest critics - raspberry chipotle pork tenderloins with rice.  Evelyn was trying her best to eat her dinner, all in the name of earning leftover birthday cake for dessert.  However, things took a drastic turn for the worse when Troy and I weren't looking.

Evelyn made the strangest comment: "I just put rice in the flowers."  Standing at the sink, Troy said, "If you did, you're going to time out and you won't get dessert."  I turned from helping Julia and told Evelyn I agreed with Daddy.  Tears sprang to Evelyn's eyes as she started apologized profusely.  Troy and I didn't think she had really put rice in the bouquet of flowers (why would she do something like that?), but apparently she had...and then ratted herself out.

To conclude this story, yes, Evelyn went to time out, and no, she did not get dessert this evening.  Hopefully she will remember to have better manners at the dinner table from now on.