heymae

Skin and Bones

4
Aug 2009

So, Zane started camp this week! It starts at 8, so every morning I get up, make him breakfast, pack him a delicious & nutritious lunch and snacks, get his gym bag together, get him his clothes, shoes and socks, makes sure he brushes his teeth and his crazy hair and drive him over to the gym. I am considering this practice for when school starts next week!

Yesterday he did not eat very much of his lunch. He ate some goldfish and animal crackers, and drank his juice but that was it. We had a talk about needing to eat so he would have energy, since basically he is working out for 6 hours a day. Now, this may seem like a lot but we do not complain, just like those 10 year old Chinese gymnasts did not complain at the Olympics. Since we are pretty sure we are going to have to move there in the next couple years so Zane can compete in the 2012 Olympics, we figure we should start getting prepared now.

Today when I picked up Zane, I looked in his lunch box. Not only had NOTHING been touched, except his Capri-Sun, but there was now a new bag of chips in the lunch box that I did not put there. Zane told me someone asked if anyone wanted them so he took them, but then he didn’t even eat them! What the Heck?! The kid is so skinny as it is, if he is getting this much exercise and not eating he is going to simply disappear. This time we had a BIGGER talk about needing to eat, and then I threw in the fact that it really hurts my feelings that I work so hard to make him a lunch and he doesn’t even eat it. Zane really hates to make anyone feel bad, so telling him that he hurt your feelings is like the worst punishment ever. Then I made him eat his whole lunch, because thats the kind of big, bad Mommy I am.