Seth was in town with his kids, and as usual, he tormented everyone under the age of 8. Maybe I would care if he singled out my kids, but he is very fair, and even includes his own kids. Maybe I would also care if I thought it was mean, but since I am one of the other ring leaders in tormenting the nieces and nephews, I find no fault. This time around it was at Baja Fish Taco, and the tormenting tool was a plain old Jalepeno.
Scout’s consistent resistance to anything other than tofu, fruit and quesadillas, got him out of this the easy way. He just looked at Seth like he was dumb!
Grant got first prize as he gnawed away at this jalepeno for quite a while. We were dying at how calm he was, and how he never spit it out. This might be one of the most classic kids I know.
Sissy just kept saying, “HOT!”
She kept going for the water to cool her down, but what she doesn’t know is that chips and bread should be her best friends at this point.
The poor girl kept sucking her fingers for the next fifteen minutes. She wasn’t loving it, but I think she is a stronger woman because of it.
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Before you go judging Seth…..just remember that I have gotten his kids to eat a few things also. But nothing compares to the time we tormented Trey under the heading of “Fear Factor” — once a popular reality show that soon after, became one of our family’s favorite past times.
I had just had Icka. We were at the Brockbank’s home when she was a few months old. In my diaper bag, I had the “raisin” that fell out of her tummy button in a plastic bag. (It fell out while we weren’t at home, and I bagged it in case I wanted to keep it.) Well, I told the whole Brockbank clan that whoever ate Icka’s tummy button would be the “Ultimate Fear Factor Champion” — a very coveted title!
So after a lot of thought and consideration, Trey finally said he would do it. Everyone was going ballistic, but my mom and Megan were going ballistic for the wrong reasons. So I finally gave in and secretly exchanged it for a chocolate covered raisin. Trey committed, but it literally took him about 20 minutes to actually put it in his mouth, chew it up, and swallow. When he finally did, he grimaced, put it in, slowly chewed and then popped his eyes open wide and said, “UUUMMMMM! It tastes like chocolate!”
We rolled when he said that. We told him that we had switched it out, and he was kind of annoyed. But we eased his frustrations by telling thim that he still was the “Ultimate Fear Factor Champion” just because he was willing to eat Icka’s tummy button raisin.
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Seth doesn’t seem so bad now, does he? He has some stiff competition in me. And I am a competitor. Let me go on the record to say…..I had NO QUALMS about Trey eating the real thing. It was uptight Nonnie and Megan that ruined that one!
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