Lesson Learned

Mistake #1 was giving my daughter a chocolate chip cookie.

I didn’t think she’d eat it, though. She’s still not very fond of feeling anything with texture on her tongue. Figuring she’d get bored of it in 5 minutes, I gave it to her for something to hold in her hand. I watched her for a few minutes with it, until I was content enough that she wouldn’t try to jam the entire thing down her throat.

Mistake #2 was forgetting that I gave my daughter the cookie.

More time elapsed until Jedi came out, with a look of disgust. That isn’t saying a lot, however, since the boy has the gag reflex of a fly. “Abby has something on her hands!”

Her hands? Oh, right. She still has that? “It’s just cookie”, I told him nonchalantly as I returned to checking on twitter what I was doing.

“Just go see!”, he urged.

Always one to oblige, I put my laptop down put a halt to the important matter I was attending to and went back to where they had been playing. There, I found my darling Abby. Covered in mushy cookie remnants and a look of “what the hell?”. All over her face and between her fingers and down her pink shirt. I grabbed a towel to wipe her clean and that’s when I saw the rest of the cookie. Chocolate chip tracks smeared across my bed.

Lesson learned, indeed.

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