The girls are both sick. Kelsey’s fever from a few days ago has progressed into more of a series of hacking-and-sneezing fits, and Laurel’s now got the first stages of the fever. Needless to say, neither one of them feels much like eating the dinner their mommy prepared for them. Both instead launched into crying fits, Laurel because she was separated from Mommy by a couple of feet and Kelsey because she was separated from The Backyardigans.

How to get the crying demons to eat their dinner? Like so: Terry sits at the table with one child on each leg (Laurel on her left knee, Kelsey on her right), a bowl of spaghetti and a drink glass in front of each one. Her left arm is wrapped around Laurel, her hand cupped at the base of Laurel’s belly, catching the noodles that inevitably fall from Laurel’s over-filled fork.

Please note that Terry really, really doesn’t like to get food on her. Now, of course, she’s covered in spaghetti sauce, little orange dots and strips of noodle covering her shirt and jeans.

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