But I Hate Vegetables!
Eric knew his wife was going to get an earful from her doctor today. He was happy to hear their unborn son was healthy and "a good size." But Lately Calleigh's foods of choice, hot dogs, ice cream, fries and pizza with onions, mushrooms and Italian sausage, in large quantities, weren't the healthiest, especially for an expectant mother. Calleigh had pretty much always hated vegetables, green ones being at the top of that list. Eric, along with help from Alexx, had been trying to get eat healthier without much luck. Eric had told on his wife about her new tastes to the physician.
"Snitch," Calleigh said to her husband. Calleigh sighed as the doctor started in on the lecture that the ballistics expect knew she would.
"And by the way," she said "I didn't need your husband to tell on you; your blood tests show you're not eating nearly enough protein. You need to eat a lot more vegetables, especially green ones."
Eric found it was easier to get Chloe to eat vegetables lately, certain ones anyway. The three and a half year old actually liked some; she would eat baby carrots and cucumber slices, as long they were raw with no dressing. She liked Chinese cabbage because it was purple. The little girl had liked green peas as long as he could remember. But when it came to the subject of broccoli, allegedly the most nutritious veggie, which Eric admitted he seldom ate because "it tasted too green," sometimes he could get Chloe to eat it as long as it was covered in cheese-whiz. No one in their little family would go near a brussel sprout. Calleigh and Eric had to agree with their child that she didn't like the way they looked. In a supreme rarity the two even sided with Chloe when Eric's mother tried to get her eat them.
"Broccoli is the best thing for you to eat. Try eating it your daughter's way; it might help," the doctor said.
Hardy-har-har, Calleigh thought.
"Did you forget that I can easily shot you?" She said to Eric in the car.
"No, my love, I didn't," Eric said with grin. "But the thing is, right now, you couldn't move the body."
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"You think you're so great, don't you? Well, you're not! You're ugly! And I don't like you! I bet my baby doesn't like you, either. People talk about how wonderful you are but not even the that smooth blanket can hide the fact you're disgusting."
Yep. Calleigh was talking to the three large pieces of broccoli covered in Cheez-whiz. As much as she loathed the food in front of her, Calleigh knew her doctor was right and she absolutely wanted her son to be born healthy and there were things she knew she had to do even if she didn't like it. She had returned from the doctor's office a short time before. She decided to start small with the three pieces of broccoli, with cheez-whiz. It was the time she usually ate a snack anyway and she was getting hungry, but not nearly hungry enough to readily eat the green vegetable in front of her.
Eric smiled, walking into the kitchen, he went over to his wife and kissed the top of her head. He was amused hearing talk to her food. He had just got off the phone with Horatio who had called him with Jake's sentence.
Calleigh smiled feeling her husband's touch.
"Hey," she said. "Was that Horatio on the phone?"
"Yeah. Twenty years, no parole, babe."
Calleigh rose and wrapped her arms around Eric, burying her face in his shoulder. It was finally over; she hoped it wasn't a dream she was going to wake up from.