This is
probably what the owners were thinking, as my children descended like a plague of hungry locusts upon the China Buffet last night. This was the first time we've all been out to eat since David was born ten months ago, and was David's first restaurant experience.
Actually, they love us at China Buffet. I think they're amazed that there are actually children out there who can be well-behaved in public; our crew does pretty well. The size of our brood makes it necessary to run a pretty tight ship.
One child making a little noise is easy to overlook, but
six children making a little noise has an astounding multiplying effect, and people start giving us the stink eye. As thus, I've tried to train everybody to keep their voices down and stick close together so we don't seem like so many people.
David is enjoying all things food these days. This morning he had his first pancakes. He was stuffing them into his mouth so fast he could barely breathe. When that boy's hungry, he goes to town.
He also tried sausage for the first time. He put the first piece into his mouth, and got a quizzical expression on his face while he rolled it around his tongue for a few seconds. Suddenly his eyes got very wide, and he reached down with both fists and started stuffing sausages down his gullet like it was going to be his last meal. It looks like he'll be able to hold his own around the Becker dinner table.
This is probably what the owners were thinking, as my children descended like a plague of hungry locusts upon the China Buffet last night. This was the first time we've all been out to eat since David was born ten months ago, and was David's first restaurant experience.
Actually, they love us at China Buffet. I think they're amazed that there are actually children out there who can be well-behaved in public; our crew does pretty well. The size of our brood makes it necessary to run a pretty tight ship. One child making a little noise is easy to overlook, but six children making a little noise has an astounding multiplying effect, and people start giving us the stink eye. As thus, I've tried to train everybody to keep their voices down and stick close together so we don't seem like so many people.
David is enjoying all things food these days. This morning he had his first pancakes. He was stuffing them into his mouth so fast he could barely breathe. When that boy's hungry, he goes to town.
He also tried sausage for the first time. He put the first piece into his mouth, and got a quizzical expression on his face while he rolled it around his tongue for a few seconds. Suddenly his eyes got very wide, and he reached down with both fists and started stuffing sausages down his gullet like it was going to be his last meal. It looks like he'll be able to hold his own around the Becker dinner table.
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