Grazers

The other night I walked into the kitchen after cleaning up the den to find this:

They'd made themselves a bedtime snack ... cheese sticks and yogurt. But you can see that Nick was already on his way back to the pantry.

Nathaniel still had one cheese stick to go. He's become a bottomless pit over the past six months ... he grazes all evening after supper because he's always hungry!

Nicholas isn't always hungry, but he can down a bedtime snack with the best of 'em. When I shot this picture, he'd just finished a quarter-cup of peanuts.

THIS one has to do whatever his brothers do, so I think he had a cheese stick, a yogurt AND some peanuts.

And then he asked me for more. And I said I didn't think it was a good idea to eat more right before bed.

That was not one of my more popular announcements.

So I indicated that I might be open to letting him have a few more peanuts.

That brightened his mood considerably.

And all was well with the world once again.