Recently Alex has developed a love, nay, a passion, for all things candy. In particular gummy candy. I blame myself. His vitamins are gummy cars. I'm sure eating a gummy vitamin every morning just whets his appetite for more candy throughout the day.
I've been spoiled with this kid, he's always preferred healthy foods, veggies and fruits over almost anything else, but that trend seems to be changing, now preferring gummy bears and licorice to apples and green beans. Now, for the first time in his life, I have to start watching what he's eating and imposing limits on him.
Last night was quite the wake up call for me regarding this new obsession of his. We were at the soccer game and next to us was a family with a little girl about his age and they were all eating Red Vines. Alex flipped out, screaming and begging and sticking his "gimme hand" at them pathetically until, get this, THEY GAVE HIM A RED VINE! He totally begged for and scored candy from strangers. This is not good. It only got worse until John and I ended up going and getting him a box of Sour Patch Kids to keep him from begging for more food from them. This has got to stop. Immediately. While I'm not planning to ban sugar from his diet entirely, he's definitely going on a detox program so he doesn't act like a crazed crack addict the second he spots a Jujy Fruit.
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