Pop tart toddler, etc...

For the last month, our 2 yr old has asked for and eaten nothing but POPTARTS!!! I'm sick of looking at them and it worries me that my sweet baby is not eating better. Of course, it's our fault because we haven't forced the issue until now. So what did my husband and I do? We distracted him and hid the box. He still asks for them, but we show him the empty space (yes, I'm so anal even poptarts have their own spot in the cabinet) and he's fine. Of course, now we're dealing with only wanting a PB sandwich for every meal. And you know what's really frustrating is that at daycare, he eats whatever they put in front of him. Why??? Because he knows he doesn't have a choice there. At home, he knows I don't want him to go hungry and so I'll fix him something else if he doesn't eat dinner. He eats for grandma and daycare and I can fix the same thing they do and he won't eat it. What's with that??? So my mom's coming to visit. She'll get here about the middle of Sept and will be here for a month. Maybe some of you don't understand, but I'm thrilled. My mom had a brain tumor removed in Feb. Although it was not cancerous, it was causing a lot of health problems. She also had a lot of complications...so much so that we almost lost her a couple of times. One Fri night, we got a call from the hospital telling us how bad she was and that we needed to come immediately. Not easy when you're 3 hours away. For my sister and BIL even harder. They're 4 hours, 1 infant and a dog away. At least we only had to worry about our 2 year old and he traveled REALLY well. What made it even worse was that 4 years ago, our dad laid down to take a nap and never woke up. He was only 57 so now I'm paranoid about my mom. We have a small family to start with. It's me, my sister, my grandmother (mom's side), my uncle (dad's bro), aunt (dad's bro's wife) and cousin (who we've only seen once in the last 10 years and that was for my dad's mom's funeral.

Ooops, my sweet one is awake from his nap... so this will have to wait. I'll be traveling soon and I should be able to get this updated then.