What do they say about children that covet food?

I think they have said this of children that have starved at some point. Well, that would not constitute my children at any point unless one would consider sharing treats with 4 siblings starving. But none of my children have ever gone without a meal by lack of having it supplied to them... sometimes by their own choice of not liking dinner but never by lack of supply. However Brody has managed to have kept us all hostage in the cracker department.

When Dave and I were first married he actually use to hide food from me from time to time. I thought it odd but growing up in a house with only a mother and sister he said they were constantly taking his clothes and other items without asking and it made him crazy. Ironically enough when we first got married I was pregnant and we were broke so I did start to wear many of his clothes from lack of anything else fitting. Luckily for both of us after Kain was born I stopped wearing his clothes and he relaxed more the longer we have been married. But the food thing always baffled me. I now wonder if it is simply in their genes?

Brody took a new box of crackers out of the cupboard the other day and asked me for some to which I replied no and told him to put them back. Being the relentless child that he is he opened the box and brought me a sleeve of crackers and I again replied no. That was the last I heard of the crackers and anyone saw of them. Then yesterday the older boys asked for cheese and crackers in their lunch and I told them they had to find the crackers first. So they searched the WHOLE house and turned up nothing! So they had no cheese and crackers in their lunch.

Just this morning Brody pulled the cheese out of the fridge and asked for some with crackers on it. So now I figured I had him! He either had to turn up the crackers he had just told us yesterday he had no idea where they were OR he would not get a snack. So I told him to go find the crackers and bring them to me and he could have some. He went running upstairs and soon returned with... not the box of crackers but one unopened sleeve of crackers.

So we now know the rest of the crackers reside on the second floor but beyond that we have no idea where the rest of the box lies! Like father, like son is ALL I have to say!