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Oh no!

She does pretty good at restaurants. We go out to lunch more then dinner.

It's the pits. She's a little better now at 2.5 years but we have to keep it to 1 hour tops.

3 weeks old and we were 3 hours out of town to get a new car and had to eat. So we stopped at olive garden. He screamed the entire time. We didn't know of his MSPI yet. Since then the worst are when he vomits everywhere (yes this happens on a regular occasion). He behaves very very well in restaurants but we have always gone to restaurants.

We had a bad bad bad experience once. We were at a local restaurant that we had walked to, with another family.

My older daughter, about 3.5 years old at the time, barfed EVERYWHERE in the middle of the meal. All over the table, all over herself, all over the lady of the family we went with, all over our food, it was DISGUSTING.

We tried to clean it up with napkins, she was screaming and covered in puke, somehow I had zero extra clothes for either of my kids with us, and we were walking home in the freezing winter. I took off my sweater and her pants (OMG IN THE MIDDLE OF THE RESTAURANT LOL!!!!) and put my sweater on her as pants, took off her shirt, put on a coat, and got the heck out of there as fast as we could. We only recently went back to eat there...almost 2 years later!

@woodentulip: we also had a puke all over a restaurant experience. Lovely.

As far as behavior, our 23 month old is a good eater so he's fine as long as there is food. But we often have to trade off walking around outside with him to avoid melt downs. We've never left somewhere early but I've ceryainly cleaned up my share of thrown food.

@oliviaoblivia: that's awful, but the way you said it made me LOL, sorry!

@blackbird: I took R one Friday to Chick-fil-a, we had to leave and I ate in the car. Since then I haven't taken her out during the week. But the weekends, no issues!

Since we are sharing stories, here's mine: the last time we ate out J insisted sitting on my lap. He ended up diarrheaing and leaking all over himself and through his pants and onto mine. I took him to the bathroom where there was no changing table (it was a small restaurant)... And had to wrangle him, wipe him clean, and change his diapers and clothes while he was standing up. Since he was standing up diarrhea also dripped onto the bathroom floor so I wiped that clean too. Then I had to clean myself up. I didn't bring a change of clothes so I walked out of the bathroom with my pants wet and looking like I had wet myself. Fun times.

Ugh. Last week we planned to go out the day before Valentine's Day on a date. Our babysitter woke up sick, so we decided to just take LO out to eat and then come home. We went to PF Changs and the server gave us 3 fortune cookies, which was cute. So, I like LO suck on his. After a few minutes I took it away from him and he flipped out. Screamed so loud that I had to take him out while DH finished paying. AWFUL. Everyone was looking at us.

In our last attempt, we had to ask them to make it to go before we even got our food. We've sworn off restaurants for a while. It a just not worth the hassle right at the moment.

Sorry We haven't eaten out for dinner at a restaurant with her since she was 11 months old last September and after having to eat at our all inclusive 3x per day on holiday we have been put off taking her out for a long while!

@blackbird: Did this happen on a Friday night? We made that mistake about a month ago and took the kids out to dinner on a Friday night. They were both awful. We had to shovel down dinner and leave ASAP. We've noticed that if we take the LOs out on a Friday night, they are just too tired from the end of a long week. I think we made the same mistake during the fall sometime and vowed never to go out on a Friday night again, but then forgot recently. I think the only two times we've had really bad restaurant behavior is Fridays because we've definitely been out to dinner other nights and have been fine.

@blackbird: the one we went to was a buffet, so at least it was a lot quicker than it could have been! We're going to a similar place in April at 19 months so hope she's marginally better!

@Mrs. High Heels: J's been really good about peeing on the potty and wants to do everything himself. Last time at Cheesecake Factory he peed all over my Uggs in the stall, lol

@blackbird: this photo is from a PFChangs rice-throwing fit. I ordered an extra glass of wine and left a huge tip!

Oh man that sucks... I'm dreading this. We sort of live in constant fear lol. We won't go out very often with her, and when we do we will only go on weekend days in mid-afternoon so it won't be busy and we can be in/out fast. And I take a ridiculous amount of toys and food she likes. And her sippy cup that she is obsessed with and generally makes her happy. And I always ask for our check and pay it the second we order our food so that if LO ever spazzes we will hopefully have already paid and can just get the f out of dodge fast. lol

B has this *awesome* new move in restaurants where he gets pissed and does the world's fastest ninja sweep kick and kicks all food/drinks/plates off the table. It's infuriating, yet mildly impressive.

@blackbird: I would have let her lick all the ketchup she wants if it meant I could eat peacefully. My daughter will actually dip anything/everything in her ketchup including fruit. If it gets her to eat and sit quietly, I'll let it go...