OMG... I was just overrun... legs cracked everywhere....

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Ok, so I make a pork chop dinner for the family and a little something extra for me. For me I have about 1 lb of shrimp that I deep fried and about 3 lbs of boiled snow crab legs. The crab legs were boiled in Old Bay seasonings. So I setup my eating area, paper is down, butter has been melted and seasoned with lemon juice and pepper. All is well. With the speed of a true shellfish eater, I start digging into the shrimp. Enter my girls... I know they like the taste of shrimp and crab. But I was not ready for what happen next. They asked me if they could have some, and me being a good parent said sure. I was smiling because I knew they had to be filled from the dinner they just ate. The youngest one tried some and looked back at the others and gave what I can only assume is the smirk of approval. And then BOOM!, like they hadn't been fed in weeks, they assaulted my shrimp and violated my crab legs.. It was a massacre...butter was splashing... there were shells popping all over my neatly laid out eating station. I tried to get my fair share of the crab legs, but they had a plan in motion that I did not figure out until it was too late. One would give me a small section of crab to open for them while the others assaulted more easily dispatchable segments of crab legs. All in all, the food was great. I came away with a fair portion of shrimp, a few leg segments and a couple claws. It ended well as the two younger ones gave me a talking crab claw puppet show, by pulling and pushing on the ligaments in the claws. The moral of this dinner story is when you share food with your little ones, set limitations or pay the price.