Up-Chuck-A-Rama

That's right folks, I have officially renamed this restaurant. To many, Chuck-A-Rama has been referred to as Up-Chuck-A-Rama for years. I myself have been a closet fan of this restaurant forever. Ry and I, when we're feeling especially bingy, head to this restaurant. Yesterday, I did a nine-mile run and only ate a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. By dinnertime I was so hungry, as my husband would say, my stomach was eating itself, so we headed to Chuck-A-Rama. The meal was tasting especially yummy and after my first plate I was ready to move on to fruit and dessert. Jax wanted dessert too and he had eaten pretty well, so I told him if he ate a particular veggie on his plate I would get him some ice cream. Normally he loves veggies, and he was all about it until he started chewing and it was too soggy for him. He spit it back on his plate, which would have been gross enough, but it got much, much worse. He started saying, "I don't like that and I'm going to throw up." (For those of you who don't know, I will tell you Jax has a seriously uncanny talent for gagging himself on command and throwing up. He has tried to use it to get what he wants over the years, but we've known about this "talent" for a while and it never works;O)). I knew when he said he was going to throw up it was only a matter of time. The other parents in the restaurant probably thought we were mean parents because we were saying things like, "Don't you dare throw up!" and "If you throw up you don't get any ice cream!" Most kids probably can't control this, but Jax can anytime, anywhere. I grabbed him and started speeding to the bathroom, but only made it to the CENTER of the restaurant before he let it fly. The worst part was, there was so much of it (a lot of watermelon) that it splashed up and landed on the innocent bystanders (imagine a collective gasp and grossed out noises from the large dinnertime crowd). Talk about mortifying! I tried to clean up, then grabbed Ry, Jax, and Becks and hightailed it out of there. No ice cream, what a mean mom! Got to love kids!