Ice cream for dinner????

I decided a few weeks ago, after watching Jon and Kate plus 8, to let the girls have ice cream for dinner one night. (Kate is a bit controlling and has other issues, but some of her ideas are cute. ) I told the girls that we could start a new tradition and have ice cream for dinner one time each summer. They were beyond excited about it. So we got out 2 kinds of ice cream, whipped cream, peanuts, 2 kinds of cookies, 3 kinds of sprinkles, bananas, strawberries, marshmallows and chocolate chips. Ice cream heaven! Or so I thought. Addyson ate about 3 bites and wanted to know if she could have her bedtime snack now, at 5:45, because she was full of ice cream. WHAT!!! After all the talking it up, she wants to eat a real dinner?!? Who's kid is she anyways? Janae joined her after a few more bites. We had talked about having beef stick, crackers and cheese for a "healthy", Janae's words, snack later tonight. They chose to have snacks foods for dinner; raw veggies, strawberries, grapes, the cheese and meat. I guess that it is partly my fault, I've ingrained in their little minds that they have to eat fruits and veggies at every meal.

So much for them remembering what a cool mom I was to let them have ice cream for dinner. I tried.