A Matter Of Principle

Fake Sleep (and note dog’s facial expression)

This is a picture of Rockstar pretending to fall asleep several days ago trying to get the Miss to eat a piece of strawberry. The Miss is foregoing playtime with her brother to stand by her most recent conviction: “Now I don’t like fruit.” (Hence his efforts to get her to eat so she can play with him.)

Time this was taken: 10pm. I refused to cave on this one, ok – I already said she didn’t have to finish all her strawberry, she just had to eat one or two more pieces. She refused to eat even one. That was THREE AND A HALF HOURS AGO.

Then she observed that if she fell asleep she would no longer be obliged to eat that little piece of fruit before we let her out of the chair. Hence the fake sleep.

And so the dog, as always, is the sanest person in this picture.