Silas the Chef

Silas loves to help in the kitchen. He helps to load the silverware into the dishwasher and even faces them all the correct way. When I put a dirty cutting board in the dishwasher, he will take it out and put it where the clean cutting boards go.

Yesterday I was peeling potatoes to put in a stew and I put the bag of potatoes on the floor. Silas pulled a potato out and said, "Ball!" Then he put the nice and dirty potato in his mouth. I took it away and kept peeling potatoes. Then I noticed he had pulled another one out and it was a rotten one. So I hurried and took it away and threw it in the garbage saying, "Yucky!" I went back to peeling and Silas pulled another potato out of the bag, went over to the garbage, and threw it in. I told him "no" but he didn't understand. He now thought his job in life was to help me by throwing several potatoes in the garbage. So finally I put the bag up on the counter!