Edward Destroys a Restaurant

Having just moved, we decided to try out all of the local restaurants, and in a town with only one traffic light, that’s not such a monumental task.  On Friday we headed out to one of the last places we hadn’t been, a rather upscale (for Richmond) Italian restaurant.  By upscale I mean that there were tablecloths and curtains and waitstaff in button down shirts.  It was very exciting.

Unfortunately, Richmond-Upscale is not the sort of place one wants to take a baby who is actually a Destructobot in disguise.  Our first offense was before the meal even started.  Edward decided to grab onto a spoon and bang it on the table like he was Justin Bieber.  After a few minutes of this, the waitress came over with some toy cars and asked if he could play with those instead, as Edward was bothering everyone with his drumming.  We took the spoon away and gave him the cars, which he proceeded to bang on the table like he was Ringo Starr.

After the food arrived, Edward decided that a good idea would be to grab the tablecloth and pull everything off of the table.  Simone moved his highchair back away from the table, which unfortunately put him in grabbing range of the curtains, which he decided should be pulled down from the windows and destroyed.  So Simone moved him away from the window, putting him in yanking range of the tablecloth once again.  She spent the rest of the meal trying to find that magic spot between the table and the window where he couldn’t reach anything (which did not exist) while attempting to distract him with food.

The food mostly went on the floor, the cars and spoons eventually went on the floor, and it was a miracle that the curtains did not wind up on the floor too.  When we got our bill we paid it and left quickly, but not before Ruby decided to get in on the fun by making up a nonsense song and singing it at the top of her lungs over and over.  The only problem was that the words she made up were “Tatty Fukk,” which she shouted in a sing-song voice to the rest of the restaurant as we left.

On another note, the food was really excellent, reasonably priced, and I can’t wait to go back!