Gigi vs the Cereal Bowl

Yes, sometimes I think I'm a great Gigi but just because I still think like a kid in so many ways:  "Ohhhhhhh, that would be a great place to hide, or, awwww, good fort building material, or cool look at those straws with built in chocolate milk - how cool is that!"  Thus making me a very cool Gigi...or so I thought.....

I recently came across a cereal bowl with a built in straw to slurp up the left-over milk -  my first thought, genius,  and second, boy oh boy will the 4 1/2 year old LOVE this, I mean love!  What's not to love, a bowl....with a built in straw???  (I don't even like cereal that much, and I wanted to try it.)

And try it out we did this morning, as a special Monday morning treat!  And, as I eagerly waited to hear oohhhs and ahhhhs and you are the greatest Gigi ever, what I heard instead was, "I dont' want this bowl I want the white bowl."  What?  The white bowl, the very plain white bowl, the white bowl with the small blue line that  I've had for a long time, and I must admit does have excellent cereal eating capabilities, but, it doesn't have a BUILT IN STRAW!  So, I said, "Hey, this is green and has a BUILT IN STRAW, HOW COOL IS THAT?"  to only hear once more, "I don't want to eat out of this bowl, I want the white bowl."

After I got over the oddness of C Boy not wanting to use the fun bowl, and wanting to use the boring white bowl, I started to think what should I do here?  (Now unbeknownst to the 4 1/2 year old, the white bowls have been packed as we are in the process of moving, oh yay and fun.)  So, we really did have to use that bowl...well, there was another bowl I could have used, a larger blue bowl, but I had already poured the cereal and milk into the green bowl.....the fun bowl.  It's green.  And, did I mention there's a straw built in????

Ok, enough of the straw as there is a bigger issue at hand, which is, do I transfer the milk and cereal into the big blue bowl or stand my ground???  I decided to stand tall, hold the line, keep it real, and told C Boy that he needed to use the green bowl.  He said no.  I said yes or no cereal.  He said ok......really I thought?  You are always starving in the morning, you eat a ton all day long, and to say no...to the fun bowl??  But no he said.

So, off to the couch he went and I took that green bowl of fun to the desk where I check emails, and sat right there and ate it all up.  I did not sip through the straw as I'm not a huge milk fan...unlike C Boy who loves milk.  Hence the straw.....I am having a hard time letting that go, aren't I?

Anyway, when we went upstairs to get dressed, C Boy immediately went to his PawPaw and told him all about the tragedy of the bowl.  PawPaw, being very smart and enjoying a blissful marriage, told him you dance with the one that brung ya, and eat from the bowl you sat down to.

And, just in case you are thinking of calling 911 and reporting me to the breakfast police, after he got dressed, he did get a graham cracker and a glass of milk....breakfast is the most important meal of the day after all.  But tomorrow is a new day, and it'll be a new day with a built in straw.