Taking matters into his own hands

We've been sick all weekend.  And most of last week.  I think the most trying part about being sick is the crankiness that accompanies it...particularly if you're 1 and a half (not to name any names).  So today at lunch I was busy dealing with one child's crankiness while the other one got tired of waiting for me so he could eat.  I was so caught up with the first child's situation that it took me awhile to finally notice this:

And you know what my response was? 

Certainly not, "Oh no, we need to clean up that mess."

Nope, it was more like, "Oh good, he can feed himself and I can deal with [insert name of cranky child here]."

So I left him like that. 

I let him eat his entire lunch on his own while I dealt with my "other situation".

And he loved it.

Once again, please don't judge me as a mother.