"Feels good again to be here and able to actually not have babies in the way," Khaat laughed. "Angus, this looks and smells delicious. Thank you so much. It always looks like it should be in a food magazine."
"Ah well, we eat with our eyes first," he laughed, sitting down with them. Khaat watched Dakota throw the lettuce leaf. She watched Jack put it back on her plate and watched Dakota promptly toss it again, angrily this time.
"Apparently she has decided she does not like lettuce tonight," Khaat said.
"Allow me," Brian said calmly. He got up, picked up the little lettuce leaf and walked over to Dakota's high chair. He coaxed her into opening her mouth and he put the lettuce in her mouth and got her to eat it.
"How'd you do that?" Khaat frowned.
"Patience. Practice, and being more stubborn than our daughter is," he said, calmly returning to his own chair. He watched her carefully as she picked up a little bite of fish and ate it without further problems. "Besides that, she knows that if she does it again, I'll set her on the floor and she'll go without dinner. And she gets really unhappy when I do that. So, that was her first and only warning. If she does it again, the next she eats will be just before bed, and it will be a meal, not dessert. She will learn to eat her meals without a fit because I'm not having that nonsense."
"Well, I wonder where he learned that?" Kate laughed, knowingly, looking directly at Robert. They both remembered how they had had to do the same thing with Brian when he was so angry and moody after his parents had been killed. It had been what had worked with him when he was small. He had learned hunger worked wonders.