Wednesday, May 23, 2007

Granola Bar break down

For some reason Audrey has a disturbing reaction to granola bars. She likes to eat them - that is she likes the taste of them, but the fact that they break apart really unnerves her. Yesterday I forgot how traumatic they are for her so I gave her one as a treat. I handed her the granola bar inside the opened wrapper and within seconds she was hysterical - crying and screaming with the two halves of the granola bar in her outstretched hands. I asked her if she wanted me to try to fix it, which she did and when I was unsuccessful she had an even larger meltdown. I tried, to no avail, to explain that granola bars were like bananas they still taste just as good in smaller pieces, but she wasn't buying that. In the end, she sat on my lap sobbing her way through her granola bar. I held all the small broken pieces in one hand (and kept it closed) and all the larger pieces in the other. She ate the larger pieces and cried anew each time they broke. The whole exhausting process took about 10 minutes and I have learned my lesson - no more granola bars for Audrey - no matter what.

The funny thing is, with almost all of her other foods, she really enjoys the breaking apart process - sometimes more than the eating process. She regularly shreds small bits of toast, croissants, banana, green beans, etc. I can't figure out why granola bars are such an unusual exception.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

That poor child. That does sound disturbing...She probably has granola bar nightmares.

-Blogless Aunt Elena

Anonymous said...

Little Miss Precious! Everyone has things that just creep them out.

xoxo

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