Who Knew Reading Was A Contact Sport?

The other day Zeke woke up WAY too early from his nap, and started getting loud in his playing. Not really being ready to let him get up, I gave him some books to read in bed. When I got him up later, his face looked like this:

Somewhat surprised that his face had been scratched, I asked him how he did it. He simply replied that it happened while he was reading. Because everyone scratches up their faces when read, right?

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Zeke has really been doing it up at lunch lately. Most days he'll eat a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, a banana, an apple, and if I'll let him, a waffle or two. So the other day he finished his sandwich and his banana, and asked for an apple. Since I was in the middle of feeding Finn I told him to get an apple from the fridge, figuring it would take him a little while to get one out of the bag, hopefully long enough that Finn would be done eating by then. Zeke, however, was much quicker about it than I expected him to be. So I told him to wash the apple in the bathroom sink (since he can reach that one pretty well), he did, and then asked if he could bite the apple instead of having me cut it that time. Since I was still feeding Finn I said it would be fine.

A few minutes later I had finished feeding Finn. I looked at the table and Zeke had eaten half of the apple aready. Figuring he'd be full soon I left him to it while I got an apple out for Deacon. By the time I got the apple out of the fridge, washed, and into Deacon's hands, Zeke had finished his apple - seeds, core, stem and all! He ate the entire apple. All of it. THE STEM EVEN. Yeah. He was pretty pleased with himself too. And that's why there's no picture to go with this story, there was nothing left to take a picture of. Silly boy.

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