Pizza Boy

Wow! Tonight my 14 year old son ate an entire pizza by himself. As we were driving to get more hair for Esther's microbraids (I know. I should've learned from doing Talley's. I thought I had bought plenty for Esther's hair. However, Esther ended up needing even more hair than Talley did. Crazy.), I decided that I would make my life easier and pick up some pizza on the way home. As it was, I had spent the day doing Esther's hair, doing the shipments for Tim's business and cuddling Henry who is a little under-the-weather. I was tired and didn't feel like making dinner.

I usually order 4 pizzas for our family and we add fruit or green smoothies or a salad or whatever to it. My kids are BIG eaters. Today my boys were begging me to buy 5 pizzas. I was questioning the need for one more and Kenyon said, "I can definitely eat more pizza than I usually do." And then Ryland piped up, "I could eat a whole pizza by myself." I laughed. I know he can put a lot of food away, but a whole pizza to himself?

So, I decided to take him up on that challenge and ordered a 5th pizza. When we got home and the other kids realized that Ryland truly got to have a whole pizza to himself, they were not happy. They felt it was unfair. Especially Claire. She kept telling me she could eat a whole pizza herself and when Ryland was halfway through his, she said, "I could've been done with that whole pizza by now if it was mine." Talley added, "When I grow up, I'm going to eat THREE whole pizzas by myself!" I decided to let them all pig out and eat as much as they wanted. Claire managed 5 pieces before she looked a little sick. Kenyon also had 5, as he decided he'd rather put other things in his belly besides pizza. Ezra managed 2 pieces, simply because his new medication leaves him without an appetite (pre-new medication Ezra could eat 2 hot dogs and a hamburger in one sitting). Esther and Talley each had 4. Funny kids.

And so Ryland polished off every single slice. Then he declared, "I did it. But now I don't like Little Caesar's Pizza anymore." :-)