the twinkie wars...

so most of you know this already but i'm pretty stingy when it comes to refined sugar and sweets for eli. i know, i know...some say we're being too uptight and depriving him of the wonders of juice and ice cream. but really, we ALL (especially me) could eat less sweets and refined sugars and our waistlines would be much happier. nonetheless, grandpa cole has been threatening this mama with boxes and boxes of twinkies for little eli. so far no battles have been started though that changed this week. grandpa cole and grandma ruthie were visiting this week and grandpa cole had a 'special' surprise for eli. low and behold, a twinkie! well folks, victory was mine in this first battle in what i'm sure will be a long twinkie war! it was classic, eli was eating lunch and grandpa brought out the big guns, a gas station twinkie. he gave half of it to eli who proceeded to put it in his mouth, grimace, spit it out and hand it back to grandpa! Victory my friends, victory! many more attempts were made with the same results, no twinkie for this boy. he was content with his unsweetened, plain yogurt with blueberries.

now we all know that this was just the beginning, i foresee many more battles where i'm sure grandpa will win. but oh well, that's what grandparents are for, right?