Do you remember that children’s song “There was an old woman who swallowed a fly, I don’t know why she swallowed the fly. Perhaps she’ll die.” Looking back at the lyrics (and so many lyrics to children’s songs), it is rather inappropriate for young children. Nevertheless, I could not get the song out of my head at dinner on Tuesday night.

We took my parents out for a dinner at Zaytinya (one of our favorite Middle Eastern restaurants) for Restaurant Week. The restaurant serves only “Mezze” portions (small tasting/appetizer sized portions) and they had a 5 course special for Restaurant Week. We each ordered a different option on the menu for each course, and we had 20 dishes to share between the four of us! The food was delicious.

During the meal, I fed Micah his dinner. When he was all finished, I let him have the spoon – I figured it would keep him busy and entertained. What I did not expect was to spend the remainder of the night trying to confiscate the spoon back from him. Every time he had the spoon, he shoved it all the way back into his throat and tried to swallow it! Needless to say, it kept making him choke – not that he stopped doing it over and over again or allowed me to take it away from him.

I guess the low point of the meal was picking up my car from the valet. Apparently, he decided to park it on the street (and we payed $11 for that courtesy) and he got a ticket. He handed it to me and told me it was my problem. We contacted the restaurant and they offered us a free meal and offered to cover the ticket. We are appealing it first, but we’ll see about whether we take them up on their offer to cover the ticket.

Micah is officially a crawling MACHINE these days. Army style, on all fours – it really doesn’t matter much to him. He pushes back to a sit, he chases the dog, he follows me around the house – he is just adorable. He gets into everything now, and he is constantly wanting to stand (and he keeps trying to walk, which worries me). We are working on childproofing the house, but we still have a way to go.