I Can't Believe She ate the WHOLE Thing!

Okay, so when we said nothing comes between Bumples and her cake, we meant exactly that!  We knew she took her eating seriously at 26 months of age when Bumples was on In-N-Out cheeseburger number 5 and was sad it was the last one!  She started to cry like she had not eaten in a week!  That just set the pace for what was to come.  While other 4 year olds are concerned with sand boxes, puzzles, and Mc Nuggets, Bumples has what we would refer to as a cultivated palate.  There is not a morsel of food eaten in our home that she has not thoroughly inspected for taste, texture and quality before anyone else can pop it in their mouth.  Do not think you can discretely place so much as a stick of gum in your mouth without Bumple's uncanny radar for food being alerted!  She will seek you out and quiz you as to 'what is in your MOUF' until you confess and more importantly offer her some of whatever you may be chomping on!  There simply is no turn off valve inside of Bumples.  Therefore is it left to us to try and portion out her meals and treats according to what is enough for a 4 year old.  She just does not get that there is a relationship between the size of her belly and her ability to fit into all the 'tute' clothes she wants us to buy her.  While she is very apt to enthusiastically point out every perceived physical defect she spies in others, she just can not wrap her little head around the fact that there is more then a simple correlation between what one eats and the size of their thighs...... but lord help you if you are fat.  She will let you know!  Sometimes she gets desperate and it is game on !  This only happens if she is denied desert as a consequence of some sort of inappropriate behavior (which is in fact rare for the 4 year old going on 24!).  Once after such a deprivation, Bumple was found on the kitchen counter with BoBo, eating an entire apple pie!  She once stole an entire fun pack of redvines from the Bean, and stashed them in various hiding places in her room.  She has been known to deny a chocolate binge with the dark stuff smeared all over her little face!  Yikes.  But do NOT get between Bumple and her cake!  She will mow you down, walk over your face (in baby Prada), and lump you up!

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