"Well, if you want to eat bacon, you can do that."

"I think we should head back before you get tired."

"Okay."

Back they go!

She trips on the way.

She is very small and probably new at walking.

Yes. She could be carried! She will allow it.

Yay!

"I already had a flower so I don't need to eat more today," she announces.

"No, you need to eat dinner when we get home. Flowers do not contain enough calories or nutrients."

Siiiiiiiigh. "Okay. But I will only eat food."

"Okay."

She will eat a peach slice and a lettuce leaf. She will take a bite of pasta in olive oil and herbs and spit it out. She will eat an almond. She will have two bites of strawberry jam on rice cake. She will reject tuna and egg and cake and pork and custard.

Her parents will glance at each other worriedly and be patient with this. 

"Do you want to play some games?"

"Okay. What games?"

They have games for one-year-olds! You roll dice and move, or flip cards and move, or spin a wheel and move, and try to make it to the end first.

These are not terribly interesting but she will play to the end of each one once.

It is an important developmental milestone to argue endlessly over rules of the game so that you always win!

Okay that part is fun.

It's the best part!

Lintalai wins this one because she did not roll the dice correctly that time. Or that time. One went under the chair. That doesn't count.

"The dice are both threes, that's a double, that means I get to roll again."

"You can roll my turn for me but it's my roll."

"Awwww. Okay." 

He rolls her twos. "That doesn't count because you rolled it." She rolls again and accepts her seven and four.