Would You Like To Come To Dinner at the Snyders?

Tonight we were having a nice lasagna dinner as a family.  Okay, truth be told (and for those of you who know us, this will be no surprise), it was a semi-nice dinner as lasagna has cheese in it and Caleb announced several years ago that he doesn't like cheese.  Any of it.  Unless of course he doesn't know a meal has cheese in it, and inhales it, and then has to try to save face when confronted with the fact that he just ate a dinner full to cheese.  But, I digress.


So Caleb hates cheese.  And I was serving lasagna.  So most of the dinner was filled with him whining about hating cheese, while Noah and Eli inhale it, and Brian and I telling Caleb he has to get over it and that cheese has as many tastes and textures and flavors as, well, just about anything.  And that life will be downright miserable if he doesn't learn to like cheese (at least sporting events, and sleepovers and birthday parties...)  And this went on and on and on.


And then we look over at Elijah, who by the way is still shoveling lasagna in, and see this.

A little closer, you say?

No joke, he has both fingers full out stuck in his ears.  As if to say, "Enough you people.  Blah, blah, blah, blah."

And we just have no idea why he would feel that way.  As this is often what dinner looks like.

But yes, they are cute.  And silly.  And while Caleb may have picked apart his dinner, and still claims to hate cheese, we're just keeping on, keeping on.

Even if, sometimes, we have to plug our ears.