Smoking macaroni

I made macaroni cheese for dinner last night... thinking that it would be a huge hit with BallFiend, because after balls and balloons, pasta is his next favourite thing, closely followed by cheese. He would eat pasta for breakfast, lunch and dinner if I let him. I got BallFiend to help me make it, by getting him to grate some zucchini and carrot (gotta make it a little bit healthy!), make some breadcrumbs by rubbing bread between his palms and then sprinkling the breadcrumbs on top.

But when it was served, he wouldn't eat it! For some strange reason, he doesn't like cheese that is"too-cooked". DeepSpice has since pointed out to me that BallFiend doesn't even like toasted cheese sandwiches or the cheese melted on pizza. Anyway, eventually BallFiend picked out the macaroni and did his best to scrape the sauce off. Then the really disturbing thing: he placed a macaroni between his lips and said "Look Mum, I'm smoking".

When I asked him how he knew about smoking, he reminded me that we had seen a man smoking at the tram stop that morning. I've have really tried to ensure that BallFiend doesn't see people smoking and in the past he hasn't really noticed when someone is smoking nearby, but obviously he has reached a stage where simple distractions are not enough.

So, to all smokers out there: please go and do it somewhere out of sight of impressionable children, thank you.

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