My daughter loves turkey and cheese sandwiches and of course chips to go with it.  Don’t dare to put a tomato, or lettuce, or anything besides turkey and cheese on that sandwich – for fear that she will either throw it at me, or just look at you like you have mortally wounded her and give me the, “Dad don’t you even know me” look.  So yesterday, because of the fact that she had a hamburger and fries the night before and she was requesting a turkey and cheese sandwich, I decided to try to trick her.  I thought that I could be smart and camouflage something good for her in the sandwich that she wouldn’t even notice.

So I took 1 little slice of tomato and 1 little slice of avocado and some salt and blended it up.  Then I mixed it with some mayonnaise and tasted it – it was good – surprisingly good.  So I applied the smallest amount of this on one of the slices of bread, and used mayonnaise on the other.  Then I forced the cheese onto the veggie spread side, so she couldn’t see it and would have a hard time to pull the cheese off of it.  Then I finished the sandwich and cut it into small little sandwich rectangles like she likes it.  You couldn’t see what I had done and I was so proud.  We sit down to eat lunch and five minutes in I see that she’s only eating her potato chips – hmm.  So I start making noises to show how delicious my sandwich is.  It worked, she picked up one of the sandwich pieces and it’s going up to her mouth, her mouths open, and her nostrils flared followed by the infamous words, “yuck – i dont like”.  I basically lie (on occasion I’ll lie for good reasons.., and sometimes not) and tell her it’s just a turkey cheese sandwich.  I continue eating and don’t pay attention to her (she seems to do better without someone staring her down while she eats), and eventually I look up at her plate to realize that she has painstakingly eaten everything except for the bread with the veggie spread on it.  So I guess the lesson here is, she’s starting to get too smart for me to trick her – which probably means that she’s smart enough to be tricking me – which means she’s really smart or …

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