Howdy,
Appetite is funny, and “hunger” makes kids who don’t always eat well, do and say funny things.
Our oldest, Jasper, eats like a bird as the saying goes, and by looking at him one might wonder at times if he’s got the hollow and light bones of a bird to go with it.
But the boy can go without eating in a way that I myself, unfortunately, can not imagine.
But every once in a while Jasper gets hungry like the rest of us. Sure, he gets hunger more often, but that hunger turns into less energy for doing routine things without it being more of a struggle than it should. It’s once in a while that he gets hungry, and eats.
Wants to eat.
Enjoys eating.
Eats more and more, asking for food, like eating’s the thing.
And it’s great when that happens.
Like today.
Today I was slicing apples for Jasper and Titus, and before I could get the halved apple into smaller slices, Jasper was at the cutting board claiming “the big piece,” and when I asked him if he’d like me to make more slices or give him the whole half he said he liked big pieces of apple, which I accepted without belying my surprise or questions as to why that’s not usually the case.
With his half an apple Jasper settled at the table and with verve said, “I love apples.” Then he said, “You guys pick such juicy apples!”
He was convinced it wouldn’t take much to squeeze a lot of juice out of the apple he was eating, and he was enjoying it.
Appetite and hunger are funny — like our wonderful, apple-eating Jasper.
—Billy
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