No, not the Manhattan hot-spot where teen queens on Gossip Girl hang out and drink martinis

"Eating Hats" protect hair from maple syrup and butter

Just good old solid stick-butter, pale yellow spreadable fat.  The kind my girls like to put on their pancakes every morning, a slab of butter for every bite.  Is this healthy?  Certainly not, but my husband insists there are nutrients in butter.  We agree it’s a better source of calories for A. than her favorite sugary snacks.  

Perhaps it’s their Swiss-Irish ancestry, but these 2 small girls can pack away a lot of butter.  

I’ve tried to limit the butter-spreading process through the lens of “Table Manners.”  As in, “Honey, it’s rude to keep putting your fork back into the butter dish to take more.  See, you can put a little on your plate and then use that!”

Breakfast: Butter is serious business

To which my ravenous daughter replies, “But I NEED butter for every bite!”

To be honest, I’m thrilled that she’s eating a food not in the Sugar family (white sugar, honey, maple syrup, Bunny Grahams, Gingersnaps, Snickerdoodles, ice cream and every other sweet she can get her hands on).  I’m also impressed by her suddenly voracious appetite.  She’s usually a bird-like eater, picking at her food, fidgeting, singing or playing imaginary games at the dinner table, content with a raspberry yogurt  when the rest of the family chows down on cheesey burritos.

C. observes her hungry sister’s strategy and then makes a play of her own.  Forget the pancakes, let’s just eat butter!

More butter, please

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