April 19

Dinner is a constant struggle here. Riley loves to drink milk - if we'd let him I'm sure he'd give up eating food all together and just drink milk. So dinner time rolls around and each night we bribe him with some milk to get him to eat some of his dinner (he's also a pretty picky eater to start with). This strategy usually works... not tonight! My friend Jess says that although there seem to be fewer meltdowns during the age of 3, when they happen they're huge. We had a BIG one tonight! You can't really get a good look at his face, but this is mid-meltdown:

He eventually did eat his dinner and get his milk, so after dinner we used one of his new birthday toys for the first time. A playdough breakfast maker!