Dealing with addiction

You know how some people are addicted to diet pills or food or alcohol or shopping? Well, it seems that I might have a little food addict in my house.

Fuller loves goldfish crackers. He wanted them for breakfast the other day, he wants them after he finishes breakfast, he wants them when he wakes up from his nap, he wants them for dinner. He wants goldfish crackers all the time.

I had to hide the box from his sight, but he still seems to know they are there. They are high up on a shelf and he tried to climb the shelf to get at them. I offer him other options, but he is insistent on the goldfish. If I forget and leave them on the kitchen island, he is sure to help himself.

I've spent time this week dealing with tantrums because he has been denied the crackers. I think Fuller is trying to make up for not eating during his illness, but I don't think all those calories need to come from cheesey crackers shaped like aquatic life.

And I hope that one day is favorite food will be green peas, because a parent can dream.