It's Bacon!

So, I had one of my less proud parenting moments today, but it was too hilarious not to chronicle for the purpose of looking back someday.  I doubt it will be nearly as comical to those reading who weren't present...but I hope you'll still enjoy reading it.

For lunch today, I put potatoes in the oven to bake while we were at church.  When we returned home, Jason and I started preparing the "fixings" to trim our potatoes...including Jason's personal favorite, a plate of super thick-sliced bacon (I didn't make that up, that's literally what it said on the package. And, in case you're wondering, it was purchased in response to a certain member of our household's previous complaints that he was dissatisfied with the "flimsy" bacon the fridge had been stocked with).

Half-way through lunch, we realized that Jason's precious bacon had never made it out of the microwave (it seems that thick-sliced bacon takes TRIPLE the time to cook, and after the third re-heat, we forgot all about it).  So, Jason retrieves the bacon and doles out a slice each to his two offspring (both of which have inherited their father's love for fatty, fried pork) who quickly consume their rations.  After a couple more moments, J returns from a second trip to the kitchen with a slice of his own.  Eli (who, you'll recall had already scarfed his bacon down) immediately zeroes in on the Daddy's bacon, and asks Jason for more.  To which Jason (jokingly) replies that he can't have any more, that all of the rest is for Daddy.

At this point, Eli (who took Jason's response quite literally) completely wigs out.  He starts whining in a high pitch voice and crying (real tears) that he "just wants s'more bacon".  If you know Eli, you know he is a happy-go-lucky, laid back kid, who seldom whines...so our response to this uncharacteristic behavior was more amusement (Did he really save up to have a tantrum over a bacon shortage?) than anger/frustration/disappointment.  Then, he abruptly stopped the waterworks, assumed a determined look in his eye,  climbed down from his chair, climbed up into the empty chair beside Jason, stood up, took the bacon out of Jason's hand, smiled a triumphant smile, looked Jason in the eye and literally giggled, "hee-hee", and went back to his chair to enjoy the spoils of his victory.

Like I said, you might have had to be there to fully appreciate it, but we were all in tears from the laughter.