The Unlikely Effects of Oreo Cookies On Toddlers

A few days ago, I learned an invaluable lesson. Never, ever EVER give your toddlers Oreo cookies as an afternoon snack.

No matter how small and innocent and tiny they may appear, they are NOT a toddler snack food and even the cute tiny ones that come in the little bags or cups are DANGEROUS when given to a toddler!

I repeat, even 2 or 3 little baby Oreo's can be BAD!!!! I mean, they do look innocent enough.

They come packaged deceptively in similar packaging as their less potent counterpart the Teddy Graham which has been a staple of our snack-time ever since that first tooth cracked through my tiny trio's gums.

I don't know what I was thinking. Kaiden had seen the advertisement on the back of his Teddy Graham package for several other cookies and had become quite excited at the prospect of there being more yummy tea-time treats out there in the world to try.

I very innocently catered to the whim of my 1 year old and tossed a package into my grocery cart the other day.

My tiny trio had their first Oreo's for tea-time about 3:30 the day before yesterday, and only Kian managed to make it to bed by 10p.m. (normally all three babies are more than ready for bed by 6.)

Vivienne and Kaiden both were up alternately ALL NIGHT LONG crying, and screaming.

They were soo tired that they just could not go to sleep. All of this from consuming no more than 3 tiny Oreo cookies each.

Vivie yawned a yawn that a mac truck would have fit through, yet she still could not go to sleep no matter how hard she tried.

Kaiden just ran around in circles in the living room, stopping every now and then to give the hearth Santa kissies and a hug before starting up his circles again.

I found myself switching out howling toddlers all night long. As soon as I had one calmed down and drowsy enough to put back into their bed, their sibling would start wailing again and upset the sleepy one back to full alert status.

At one point, I had Vivienne asleep next to me in bed and had to have Husband fetch Kaiden who was screaming himself silent (screaming so hard that no noise was coming out of his mouth-you can tell he is doing this by his breathing.)

I was actually able to get Vivienne into her bed with Kai out of the room and she only cried for about five minutes before finally settling down for the morning.

Kaiden would spend the rest of the morning laying on top of me literally while I tried to sleep.

He dozed off and on for the rest of the morning, but inevitably would wake up screaming periodically.

All of this because we had baby Oreo's for tea-time. Wow! Who would have thought that one tiny little cookie could contain so much sugar that an active toddler couldn't burn it off before bedtime!

I have learned an invaluable lesson. Oreo's, while yummy and quite addictive for both adults and tiny toddlers, are NOT all that good for you as they apparently have much way to much sugar in them for ANYBODY'S good!