Chug-A-Lug

Anyone who has ever met Baboo is STUNNED to see how fast she drinks a 6 oz cup of milk. She literally downs the whole thing in under 1.5 minutes with barely coming up for air. And several times a day.

I’m glad she drinks milk and really seems to love it. On the days when she doesn’t eat much, I rely on it and Instant Breakfast to assuage my Mommy food worries. Her “chock-wit meewlk” is the first thing she asks for in the morning, but we’ve learned to make her hold off until AFTER she’s eaten some food before giving it to her. Primarily because we know if she drinks all that milk she won’t actually EAT any food because well, she’s obviously not hungry any more. And secondly, because she tends to get car sick. Many times she’s chugged her milk too fast, we get in the car to go to school and she promptly throws it all up half way down the highway.

Nice picture, huh? Ew.

So, we are constantly telling her to take a break, drink slowly etc. Most of the time she sighs and says “ohhh-kay” and stops for 2 seconds and then finishes it off. (And I often make her wait to have her morning milk until AFTER we get back from dropping Mouse off at school and have a few hours before getting in the car again).

Today, however, when she started chugging her milk and we reminded her to slow down, she stopped immediately, walked over to the piano which is plainly visible to all of us from the kitchen, crawled under the bench, lay down on the floor and started chugging her milk.

I asked her “Are you hiding under the piano so you can chug your milk?” To which she replied “Yes. Yes, I is.” And that’s exactly what she did. When she was done, she climbed out from under the piano, walked over to me to give me the cup, with a little satisfied smirk on her face and went about her business.

I guess she’s just too little to lie.