Don't Lick It

You ever wonder where your kids pick things up? Well, its probably you and you just don't know it yet. Friday night we were on our way home from dinner and Charlie and I got Dairy Queen. Maya still doesn't eat ice cream. Anyway Charlie got his usual ice cream cone. As we pull out of the drive thru and Charlie is driving and eating away Maya says to him "Daddy, don't lick it, eat it." What? So Charlie takes another lick. Maya says "NO DADDY, don't do that. Don't lick it. Eat it!" In order to get himself through his favroite dessert, Charlie had to hide the licking all the way home! So I thought this was blog worthy on Friday night when it happened and started typing. Then at dinner tonight it dawned on me where Maya got this from. We say it to her ALL the time. But its with cheese or ketchup or any other kind of dip. She will just lick the cheese off a chip, lick the ketchup off a fry and so on and we always say "Maya, you can't just lick it, you need to eat it". Smarty pants.