(Don’t you hate all those “viral” posts that have titles like this? “…and you’ll never guess what happened next!” So I expect this post will be shared four trillion times because of my intriguing post title.)

Anyway, this happened the other night.

and then this:

and then THIS!

Yeah, you know, I was just sitting, minding my own business, eating my dinner of chicken sausage with kale and sun-dried tomatoes while the boys played upstairs. And Miles wandered down and asked to taste the sausage.

I was dumbfounded. Miles may be the most open-minded eater of the trio, but that’s not saying much. For him to voluntarily ask to try something with bits of green in it?!? And then to like it and eat and entire link of sausage??? I never dreamed such a thing was possible.

I still can’t believe my child ingested kale. A green vegetable.

Epilogue: He requested it for dinner again the next night. I made it, and served it to all three. Miles gobbled his up, Linus ate maybe one piece, and Oliver acted like we were poisoning him. But even Oliver got at least a molecule of kale in his system. It’s a miracle!

Photo by Kendra Jones Photography from the NOMB Easter Egg Hunt on March 22, 2014

Kendra’s daughter Gisele has been in school with the boys for the past few years. She and Linus are thick as thieves when I see them together. It’s adorable.

Before I went to Portland, I took the boys to a local Touch a Truck event put on by the local Junior League. I was a little worried the boys would be too old for it, but they had a blast.

Some photos…

Miles peeking in a racecar

In the firetruck

In the firetruck

In the stretch Hummer

In the stretch Hummer

In the stretch Hummer

In the stretch Hummer

In the stretch Hummer

Miles driving a cement mixer

Oliver driving a cement mixer

Linus driving a cement mixer

In an ambulance

In an ambulance

Driving

Driving the ambulance

Oliver getting a bandaid from the EMT

Oliver getting first aid

THIS IS AWESOME!

Special Agent Miles

Special Agent Linus

Special Agent Ollie