Yup....chris took it on himself to introduce elliot to his first taste of wasabi at dinner tonight. He reaches across the table with a pretty decent sized chunk of wasabi on the end of a chopstick and says 'hey elliot, you can have the rest of my pop, if you try this'.........i am shaking my head furiously at elliot to say NO, and to close his mouth. He looks at me, and then looks at chris and closes his mouth around the chopstick.
Almost instantly, he starts to cry.
Immediatly after that, it seems almost like the whole restaurant stops talking to look at our table and chris sheepishly saying 'his first taste of wasabi'......he said he didn't think elliot would take it. So, here is elliot crying, loudly...trying to drink anything to the taste out of it out of his mouth. Oh man, chris felt bad....
Tonight, as i was tucking elliot in, i asked him if he was mad that daddy did that to him....you know what he says?
"no, i'm not mad.....because i love him"
OOH...could you not just eat him up???!! Such a sweet, sensitive, forgiving soul. And just so this isn't a 'oh chris is a brutal dad'...i will throw my 'brutal moment' in too...
On the ride home, i see elliot shaking the ds games bag around and i am so sick of finding $$ ds games between the seats, but i don't say anything, until isaac says 'Elliot!! you are dropping the games out of the bag!" so i turn around and loudly scold, "Elliot!!!! Stop DOING that!! You lose SO many games that way!!!!"......and then i really think nothing else about it.....said it, moved on, he probably didn't hear me anyways since he doesn't really listen to me most times.....but a moment later, i turn to see that he has put his ds away in his door and that he has curled up into a ball and he is crying into his knees.
sigh....i am a schmuck......i reach back, 'i am so sorry elliot, i didn't mean to hurt your feelings, are you ok? i am sorry'....and all the while, he is looking at me, right in my eyes and nodding, like 'its ok, i am upset, but its ok....' I gave him my phone (which i never ever do!)...and he was fine....but oh these boys!!
