Dinner At Olive Garden

Last night Cory took me out to dinner with Alex, Cami, and Anthony with a gift card he got from work. We don't take the kids out to eat very often so they were excited and didn't know what to expect.
We went to Olive Garden and Cami and Alex kept saying how they wanted olives for dinner. They obviously thought it was where you went and ate olives. While we were waiting to be seated they gave us one of those beepers to let us know when it was our turn. Alex and Cami had no idea what it even was so they kept asking questions about it and watched it to see what it would do.
When we were seated and they brought out the plates they put one in front of Anthony. He has never used a plate on his own so he bent down and tried to eat it a few times until he figured out he couldn't chew it. It was so cute!
When the food came Cami loved her food so much she ate it within a few minutes. Alex on the other hand savored it and kept talking after each bite about how we needed to get online so we could find the recipe for his spaghetti so dad could make the chicken and I could make the noodles. After he was done eating he carefully took his lefotvers home and put them in the fridge so he could save them for today. At lunch today he carefully got them out again and savored it again.

I guess the trick to getting kids to appreciate things in life is to not give them everything they want. It was fun to see them excited about the little things.