Breakthrough!!!

Are you kidding me???. For those of you who know us well, you know that I struggle with getting Isaac to EAT. We've wasted so much food...enough to feed hundreds of families in Africa, I swear. I've tried everything from having picnics on the floor, animal-print plateware, playing games, doing acrobatic, back-breaking tricks, making sounds I've never heard myself make, WHATEVER...you name it, we've done it all (at least we thought)! Well, this weekend, we were doing the power struggle thing with food again. He had just watched a golf tournament with daddy. I told him that Tiger Woods eats big to swing the golf club and hit the ball "so high" and "so far" (his vocabulary). I asked him to take a "GOLF BALL bite." To my surprise, he did. John chimed in and asked him to take a "birdie" bite (he just learned about scoring birdies). No problem. How 'bout an "eagle" bite. Slick. And we've been eating ever since...Dahhhh! Why did it take us so long to figure this one out? Sometimes I feel like such a dummy of a parent. We'll see how long this trick lasts.