We all know Rose is highly highly selective about food. Recently she decided she no longer liked veggie booty or sesame rice crackers after having them on her yes list. David's not so bad. He'll eat a lot of different foods, but he's got his own wacky stuff going on.

One bite crackers

I'll put out snack for the kids, a plate of rice crackers and cheese. David will carefully take one piece of cheese, put it on one rice cracker, take one bite, and move on. He'll waste his way through half the food this way. We don't have a dog, and I'm not particularly fond of unmelted cheddar.

One bite sushi

First Daddy pokes the fish out of the center of sushi roll because if Mommy tries and breaks the roll, it's no good. Then David dips the fishless sushi in gluten-free soy sauce, takes, you got it, one bite, and that one's done. Then Daddy or Mommy eat the mushed up leftovers.

Got to be hot

Timing David's meals is an art. You put the hot dog in the microwave for 22 seconds. It comes out so hot you burn your fingers as you slice it up. Then you call David to the table. Except he's busy playing with the viewfinder or throwing a football through the basketball hoop or fighting with his sister over who gets to wash their hands first and by the time he gets to the table, his food has cooled, which is cause for much agony and a loud request for it to be reheated.

We pick our battles and this isn't one of them. So we reheat. Then it's too hot. Will we maintain his attention long enough to get the food into him while it is just right?

A broken cookie is no cookie at all

The good news is there are a lot of commercial g-f cookies on the market these days. The bad news, g-f cookies are prone to crumbling. David loves Pamela's chocolate chip cookies but only if they are perfectly round. He has a fit if they have been jarred a bit in our cupboard and cracked in two. Just when you think you are appeasing the child with sweets, he turns on you.