Ice Cream Sandwiches

Adam and I visited Zara, Zryce and the kids up at Chautauqua last weekend where they were vacationing with Zryce's parents. We had lots of fun times with the kids and we even made western themed ice cream sandwiches from brownies as a special treat one night. The kids were told they had to finish their dinner if they wanted special dessert. The black bean salad was the main hurdle between both kids and their dessert, but both persisted. The following is a reconstructed conversation featuring Zames and his "cowboy hat" ice cream sandwich.

plasticann: Zames, do you like your ice cream sandwich?
Zames: [intently eating ice cream with no visible sense of excitement]
plasticann: Is it yummy?
Zames: [continues to eat while ignoring plasticann, starts to dance up and down]
plasticann: Zames, do you need to go to the bathroom?
Zames: [more frantically eating, but nodding]
Zara: Zames, let's go to the bathroom.
Zames: [still eating, nodding and starts walking to the bathroom]
Zara: Zames, don't take the ice cream to the potty. We don't eat while we pee. It'll be here when you come back.

Who knows what goes through a 2.5 year old boy's mind, but we hypothesized that Zames was concerned that he would lose his ice cream sandwich if he went to the potty so he was trying to finish it quickly. Anecdotal evidence, but he did appear to enjoy his ice cream much more post potty than pre potty. Most importantly, we all learned that we don't eat while we pee...a worthy and sanitary refrain indeed.